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Originally Posted by Severian
I don't really get how it's any different from Apple Lossless or higher-quality MP3 itunes rip. Much of my digital music is 192, and it all fits in the iPod classic.
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Originally Posted by Severian
I have kinda become an Apple slave since my highly publicized move to the iPhone back in 2012. A decision which some of you chaps were a part of. No, it's not an "ecosystem" because my iPhone can't store more than 16gb of music without interrupting some of the functioning. But itunes + a high capacity player like the now discontinued 160gb iPod classic makes for a pretty handy pocket music library.
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Took me a bit to...
decode your posts.
When you say most of your digital music is 192, what you mean is their
bit rate is 192kbps (kilobits per second). That is completely different from a
sampling rate of 192kHz (audio sampled 192,000 times per second). Likewise, you're confusing a
bit depth of 16-bit with a storage capacity of 16 gigabytes.
The bit rate is normally used as a measure of an audio file's quality (the original source has to be considered too, though; I'll explain in a, um, bit). Audio CDs have a bit rate of 1411kbps, as the information they contain has a bit depth of 16, a sampling rate of 44.1kHz and, since it's stereo, two channels: 16 x 44,100 x 2 = 1411. That's a big leap in quality from 192kbps, and yet it's dwarfed by the 9216kbps (24 x 192,000 x 2) of the high resolution files available online from Pono.
A turd is a turd, though, which takes us to the "ecosystem" concept. It doesn't have to do with storage capacity; it means that the audio files have been transferred to digital at a high resolution from the best sources available, and that you will get the chance to appreciate this because you'll listen to them on a player specifically designed to bring out the superior quality.
And now I want some free tunes from Pono considering all the good publicity I've given them.
