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To: StockJock-e who wrote (3743)	10/18/1998 3:30:00 PM
From: VIPER85730	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4679

Didn't someone just come out with a dual deck CD Player/Recorder so you can dub CD's at home? What would be the difference here? Someone enlighten me. VIPER-------<

To: StockJock-e who wrote (3743)	10/18/1998 3:51:00 PM
From: Jonathan Quick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4679

SJ, Even the folks that established the MP3 standard admit that the process of compression creates some background noise and distortion, hence the "near-CD" quality description. If you really want to drill down on this further, I'll be happy to post excerpts from the specifications for the actual standard. The idea that MP3 exacts a penalty in sound quality to achieve such a high compression rate is no revelation to those of us that have been following MP3 since its inception. Jonathan