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The F Mister said:My generation don't buy CD's/DVD's. We download our music in MP3. I'm afraid that our ears are becoming less sensitive to these artifacts. If I know my audience isn't going for the quality but for the content do I care to put so much effort in trying to mask these artifacts? As a engineering point of view yes but...... what does the rest think?
Good point - although I might think that a stream that is truly better sounding will activate the "psycho-acoustic" aspect of listening behavior; quality sound digs deep into the brain recesses and causes the listener to prefer it over exactly the same content with a poor audio quality. This is a subconscious process - only audiophiles would realize that they are making the choice. I gotta believe that this response is just as strong for the "new" generation is it is for older ones.