MP3 players

Yes, that is interesting. Also interesting that you might know Mr. Ludwig personally. I've not found the article yet, but if I remember correctly, it was a mastering engineer on the west coast (I forget who, but I'll certainly post this word for word when I find it) who said something to the effect of: "when we can get a digital machine to do 24 bit/400 kHz, it'll be more likely that we'll archive to a digital format". I think that idea has an underlying meaning, concerning analog-to-digital converters that could perform such conversion in a linear PCM (or similar) format. It might be a while before that occurs, from what I can tell. I could be wrong.

I have a huge collection of mp3's. Lots of really great stuff, ex. (Atomic Rooster. in hearing of) that I couldn't stand not listning to on something more than computer speakers. I started thinking all music has some sort of compression on it, mp3's included of course. So what I came up with was this. I purchased a dbx 3bx off ebay (the unit was like new $202.00) I hooked it to my soundcard line out (non-amplified). Then ran that into my Mcintosh 754 power amp. From there strait to a pair of Paradigm 7 se's. I used MIT termanator2 cables throughout. This really produces a good sound for me. You're right some mp3's are encoded better than others, but people are starting to make them pretty good now for the most part. There is so many software players win-amp being one, that have lots of controls I find no need for a pre-amp at all. The thing is , the dbx really improves the high and low end of mp3's and makes them much better to listen to.

If you think it sounds the same, Great. That's what it's all about what you think. Take some time and listen to a respectable tuner for a while, your ears will thank you. Radio is free and legal to record.

An mp3 song is one tenth the size of its 16 bit cd quality version. The answer: MP3 and Martin Logan don't mix!!

one-tenth? Try about 50% for a high quality 320 kbit/sec mp3. By the way, they work just great with my NAD/Parasound/Carver Amazing system.