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To: Craig Freeman who wrote (6873)	9/3/1999 11:07:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

<<<<<you haven't lived until you've heard Garth Brooks' "The Thunder Rolls" through $300 worth of earmuffs and a massive subwoofer.>>>>> Oh, great. A whole 60 minutes worth of country-fried watered-down-rock-n-roll/adult-contemporary crap in perfect quadrophonic stereo. The saddest part is, Beethoven's 9th right now is probably being listened to somewhere on a $50 jambox with one blown speaker. Talk about unfair distribution of resources!

To: Craig Freeman who wrote (6873)	9/4/1999 8:52:00 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

As a classical pianist who enjoys listening to CD recordings and in particular the recently issued CD reconstructions of Rachmaninoff's piano rolls, I think CD is very satisfactory, and actually capable of producing much better sound than my amplifier and speaker system allows. MP3 has a niche more on the convenience end of things, and I can think of many applications other than music. How about audio books? And how about using the same equipment, minus the downloading part, for ordinary voice/music recordings? For many purposes, the fidelity and storage capacity of MP3 will prove to be better performing, with less battery drain, than existing casette recorders and players.