Rocker Lou Reed takes aim at new technology

At South by Southwest, Velvet Underground co-founder calls for better digital-sound standards than what current MP3 tech provides.
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[MaxAgent86]

Agree bust most people don't care

Most will play their MP3 through PC speakers, Cheap Audio System or MP3 players with so so headphones so the sound quality does not really matter as most of the above are not able to deliver real high fidelity sound.
For an audiophile or people that send them through high quality sound system then agree with Mr Reed, as some purist also say that CD's sound awfull and only believe in vinyl

[dwpbike]

old ears

i'm in low reed's age group, but i can't fully agree with the mp3 indictment. i think the kbps is the deciding factor, not mp3/flac/whatever. i really can't tell the difference between 256kbps mp3 and flac. i can tell the difference in how long it takes to download and whether i have portable music. i remember the monaural days of the beatles and somewhere there a cassette tape of velvet underground. weren't they supposed to sound raw, a bit ragged?

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