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Gibson668
Bloody hell!...30 years ago you'd be wetting yourself over a cassette tape or some dodgy bootleg vinyl...
I am an audiofool...for my sins I have spent a fortune on my hifi..Yes, flac, when number crunched, is a better medium..but..unless you have the hearing of a bat, these MP3's are fine..get over yourselves and enjoy the bloody music!
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Gibson668
Bloody hell!...30 years ago you'd be wetting yourself over a cassette tape or some dodgy bootleg vinyl...
I am an audiofool...for my sins I have spent a fortune on my hifi..Yes, flac, when number crunched, is a better medium..but..unless you have the hearing of a bat, these MP3's are fine..get over yourselves and enjoy the bloody music!
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Gibson668
Bloody hell!...30 years ago you'd be wetting yourself over a cassette tape or some dodgy bootleg vinyl...
I am an audiofool...for my sins I have spent a fortune on my hifi..Yes, flac, when number crunched, is a better medium..but..unless you have the hearing of a bat, these MP3's are fine..get over yourselves and enjoy the bloody music!
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bigtyke66
To my old ears, this 286kps AAC (not MP3!) download really kicks some serious ar$e! They sound like a real band again.
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Gibson668
Bloody hell!...30 years ago you'd be wetting yourself over a cassette tape or some dodgy bootleg vinyl...
I am an audiofool...for my sins I have spent a fortune on my hifi..Yes, flac, when number crunched, is a better medium..but..unless you have the hearing of a bat, these MP3's are fine..get over yourselves and enjoy the bloody music!
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bigtyke66
To my old ears, this 286kps AAC (not MP3!) download really kicks some serious ar$e! They sound like a real band again.
And they did live too! Talk about the seven wonders of the world, these guys are the eight wonder of the world!
. That's really not the case with me, for example I have 10,000 + songs on my iPod classic, most are bootlegs. I may have bought 400 songs since 2007 from iTunes. Now my problem is more lack of memory, there is always some new releases coming along. I just can't get hung up on the highest quality of sound when I'm quick to move on to the next release. How many times can one listen to the same song? Well let's see my iPod says Satisfaction 200 hundred times.Quote
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Gibson668
Bloody hell!...30 years ago you'd be wetting yourself over a cassette tape or some dodgy bootleg vinyl...
I am an audiofool...for my sins I have spent a fortune on my hifi..Yes, flac, when number crunched, is a better medium..but..unless you have the hearing of a bat, these MP3's are fine..get over yourselves and enjoy the bloody music!
The thing is we're not talking about a bootleg release here. This is an official release, professionally mixed by a "big name" (Bob Clearmountain), and all we get at the end is a mp3 quality download.
As someone else pointed it out in this thread, it doesn't make any sense at all to offer only mp3 downloads in 2013. There's so many more possibilities. For instance they could release it in mp3/aac format, in FLAC/CD quality format and in HD/24bit format. And let everyone choose what's the best for his audio system... That's how works Qobuz, by the way. When you buy music on Qobuz you have the choice of format.
But it's long time understood that Apple doesn't care about music quality. All they're interested in is to sell smallest sized audio files so that their customers can pack as much as possible tracks on their i-devices (hence buy more from iTunes).
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U2Stonesfan. That's really not the case with me, for example I have 10,000 + songs on my iPod classic, most are bootlegs. I may have bought 400 songs since 2007 from iTunes. Now my problem is more lack of memory, there is always some new releases coming along. I just can't get hung up on the highest quality of sound when I'm quick to move on to the next release. How many times can one listen to the same song? Well let's see my iPod says Satisfaction 200 hundred times.Quote
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Gibson668
Bloody hell!...30 years ago you'd be wetting yourself over a cassette tape or some dodgy bootleg vinyl...
I am an audiofool...for my sins I have spent a fortune on my hifi..Yes, flac, when number crunched, is a better medium..but..unless you have the hearing of a bat, these MP3's are fine..get over yourselves and enjoy the bloody music!
The thing is we're not talking about a bootleg release here. This is an official release, professionally mixed by a "big name" (Bob Clearmountain), and all we get at the end is a mp3 quality download.
As someone else pointed it out in this thread, it doesn't make any sense at all to offer only mp3 downloads in 2013. There's so many more possibilities. For instance they could release it in mp3/aac format, in FLAC/CD quality format and in HD/24bit format. And let everyone choose what's the best for his audio system... That's how works Qobuz, by the way. When you buy music on Qobuz you have the choice of format.
But it's long time understood that Apple doesn't care about music quality. All they're interested in is to sell smallest sized audio files so that their customers can pack as much as possible tracks on their i-devices (hence buy more from iTunes).
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mickijaggeroo
Having been to both Hyde Park shows, and putting my listening experience from that together with this release, I can only come to one conclusion: This band is on FIRE!
So much better than the shows in November, all tough they were great.
I can only say, thank God or who ever put them on this earth, they still amaze me after 40 years of fandom from my side. These two shows are easily in my top 10.
Repeating an old slogan I saw in a pic many years ago: May God speed The Rolling Stones! I am so happy to have them and my Vikings in my life, can´t imagine what it will be without them.
To all doubters and infidels, listen to this, and repent.
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firebird
I just don't get why those online music shops do not offer different versions. It is save to say that the Hyde park show is recorded at least at 96khz/24bit resolution (my bet would go to 192Khz/24bit).
After that work is done, to create mp3, AAC, flac or whatever from the master is just a few mouse clicks, you can create three different formats in ten minutes.
So just give the people what they want, offer 96khz/24 bit HD audio, flac and mp3, there is no reason for not doing so.
I think mp3 (or any other lossy format) is already a relic from former times.
Wouldn't you all agree that the stones deserve the best sound quality available?
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firebird
I just don't get why those online music shops do not offer different versions. It is save to say that the Hyde park show is recorded at least at 96khz/24bit resolution (my bet would go to 192Khz/24bit). There is not even high-end pro audio equipment needed, it's all standard nowadays. All the mixing and mastering is done at the same high audio resolutions. After that work is done, to create mp3, AAC, flac or whatever from the master is just a few mouse clicks, you can create three different formats in ten minutes. And I bet putting it online to the shop doesn't take longer.
So just give the people what they want, offer 96khz/24 bit HD audio, flac and mp3, there is no reason for not doing so.
I think mp3 (or any other lossy format) is already a relic from former times. It was good when we were using 56kbit modems and a hard disc had 20 megabytes capacity. But these times are gone, we have broadband internet and can store tons of gigabytes on small cards. It won't take long that SD cards in the terabyte range will be available. It just makes no sense to stick to a technology that is not sounding as good as it could when the technical reasons for using it are no longer existent.
Wouldn't you all agree that the stones deserve the best sound quality available?
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mickijaggeroo
Available now on the "bay"..