24/192 Music Downloads are Very Silly Indeed. Also see Xiph.Org's new video, Digital Show & Tell, for detailed demonstrations of digital sampling in action on real equipment! Articles last month revealed that musician Neil Young and Apple's Steve Jobs discussed offering digital music downloads of 'uncompromised studio quality'. Much of the press and user commentary was particularly enthusiastic about the prospect of uncompressed 24 bit 192kHz downloads. 24/192 featured prominently in my own conversations with Mr. Young's group several months ago. Unfortunately, there is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz format. Its playback fidelity is slightly inferior to 16/44.1 or 16/48, and it takes up 6 times the space. There are a few real problems with the audio quality and 'experience' of digitally distributed music today. 24/192 solves none of them.
First, the bad news I was also interested in what motivated high-rate digital audio advocacy. Misinformation and superstition only serve charlatans. Gentlemen, meet your ears. (1) Papir. Black Pyramid - Caravan. Memory Hole (ambient / psychill / psybient mix) Glen Drover - Heavy Metal Solo Speed Exercise. ▶ Pomegranate Tiger. Ske - Denti. Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz « Lost in the Cloud. My uncle, John Arthur Stump, who was my father’s youngest brother, died on January 20, 2006. His memorial service was held at a Vedanta monastery in Hollywood, where my other uncle (known there as “Jnana Chaitanya,” but to me as Uncle Dave) serves as a monk. I was not at the ceremony, but my family brought back some memorabilia from the service and from Uncle John’s “estate,” including a large piece of paper densely printed with musical notation. It was a sheet of music for a work entitled “Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz (from ‘A Tribute to Zdenko G.
Fibich’)” that John had put together, obviously as an unplayable and satirical parody. What surprised me was the fact that this piece was actually something of a musical legend, but to my knowledge, Uncle John had never mentioned it to anyone in my family before. A letter from Paul McCartney's personal assistant to John UPDATE: I have posted more material and images regarding John here. The Stump family circa 1976. Other compositions by John:
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