Difference between original and illegal music.

[Gintaras]

Personally, I wouldn't touch anything that has iTunes in it even if it was free.

Me too...+1...

and I would not trade my HifiMan for 3 or 5 iPods....

 

[Gintaras]

It would surprise me if it wasn't significantly worse.



The difference is, a lot of pirates actually care about music quality. Record companies don't care about quality because by the time you're listening to it they already have your money.

You can't get better quality out of ripped CDs...You can get better quality if ripping out of LPs...All CD has - 16bit/44Khz...
LPs does contain much more data(as in digital format) than any regular CD does...
I was told, there was a documentary on some TV channel about that case...


And...you're not a PIRATE, if you ripping music out of LPs you already have...

I've downloaded Pink Floyd – Animals (1977) (Original USA) [Vinyl Rip 24-96] {same vinyl, two different carts}

Am I a Pirate? or guy who made that rip is a pirate?

I do have Pink Floyd - Animals LP in my collection...

If that guy is a Pirate, so are many Record Co's...

Let's say, Trapeze(Glenn Hughes/Deep Purple) albums released on CD were transferred from LPs - Master Tapes gone, no one can found these...
Many Japanese releases - on CD, from albums from 70's were recorded from LPs...

 

[SyndromeOCZ]

Me too...+1...

and I would not trade my HifiMan for 3 or 5 iPods....

Only because you paid more than it would cost to buy 7 or 9 ipods. Just say'n.

 

[Gintaras]

Only because you paid more than it would cost to buy 7 or 9 ipods. Just say'n.

Just say'n?
You should know what are you say'n...if you don't know - it may be a BS...

So...how do you know, how much did I pay?

Why I don't need an iPod? First, I don't want to use software to transfer files to player or SD card. Another thing, I want to listen FLAC files and I don't want Apple proprietary lossless ALAC

Then...my HiFiMan is an entry level audiophile player and I've paid $200

But someday I'd like to get new Astell & Kern AK120 with Dual DAC - one for each channel.

 

[Hugh Jass]

Holy Jesus Christ on a stick...I think we are all dumber for having read and participated in this thread.

 

[Guurn]

I thought it was technically illegal to change the format (IE from a cd to FLAC) of the data. Is that wrong?