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philip2005 · 05-06-2005, 05:12 PM

There have been plenty of discussions about Blu-Ray discs replacing cd's and mp3's for music, and the basic argument is that you can fit loads more on to one, obviously an mp3 is only a few mb and blu ray is 50Gb. Well being an audiophile its "Quality not Quantity" that matters. To be hones mp3 is an appauling music format, in terms of what it sounds like. Sound is analogue and the closer to an analogue media you can produce the better the sound will be, thus Vinyl is still far superior sound to CD or mp3. However with Blu-Ray comes an opportunity. Audio DVD is sampled at 192Khz in 24bit. Thats quite good, but it's not that much better than a CD. Bluray could be sampled at as much as 1Mhz, possibly in 32 or 64 bit. Now that would be good! All i can hope is that if audio Blu-Ray does become a big thing the developers realise that it is "quality not quantity" that matters.

05-06-2005, 05:12 PM	#1
philip2005 Junior Member Member since:May 2005	Blu-Ray Audiophile Sound Quality There have been plenty of discussions about Blu-Ray discs replacing cd's and mp3's for music, and the basic argument is that you can fit loads more on to one, obviously an mp3 is only a few mb and blu ray is 50Gb. Well being an audiophile its "Quality not Quantity" that matters. To be hones mp3 is an appauling music format, in terms of what it sounds like. Sound is analogue and the closer to an analogue media you can produce the better the sound will be, thus Vinyl is still far superior sound to CD or mp3. However with Blu-Ray comes an opportunity. Audio DVD is sampled at 192Khz in 24bit. Thats quite good, but it's not that much better than a CD. Bluray could be sampled at as much as 1Mhz, possibly in 32 or 64 bit. Now that would be good! All i can hope is that if audio Blu-Ray does become a big thing the developers realise that it is "quality not quantity" that matters.