That's interesting I've never even tried it on those types of pieces. Still I think as storage capacity increases using lossy codecs will be unneeded in critical operations. For rock music I find it a waste of space to put them in loss-less format. Still as nand continues to drop in price we will see a lot larger portable music players. This is why I've yet to purchase a newer portable media player especially since the phone/media player integration is in full swing.
Sorry about my tardy reply, but until this evening I have largely had a diet of two cylinder music.
I had a very elderly patient who had been a JD dealer many years ago back in the two cylinder era. He tried to get a farmer who was a long time IH customer interested in John Deere. The customer said "he didn't like the sound of John Deere tractors. My patient said, " If it's music you want I'll buy you a radio!"
We had an ice storm start on Friday night which has made a real mess and everything is covered in close to an inch of ice. Of course it turned to snow and we had close to half a foot last night as the wind northerned and the mercury nose dived.
Handling the Model A with the big 8' snow bucket is a handful on ice as is any piece of heavy equipment. After I got done clearing my place the half mile road and a couple of neighbors it was 3.30 PM. As soon as I got in I fell asleep, I think from the mental exhaustion as much as any thing else. On like that you need to tune into every sensory receptor in backside.
Its below zero this evening with wind chills of 30 below. So I had a wee dram by the fire warmed up and even got into a good sweat, oblivious to the wind chill outside
Now down to business. These lossy codecs are pop music geared, pure and simple.
I think on the whole classical music lovers and especially opera lovers tend to invest a lot more in equipment especially speakers.
There is a huge range of resolution between speakers.
What I have noticed, especially with opera, is a big change in voice character. This is especially true of Placido Domingo's voice that looses the roundness and projection in the voice. The female voices suffer badly with change in the balance of head and chest voice. The result is an unpleasant caricature that people way too often associate with that art form. I have to say that it is widespread defects in sound reproducing equipment, especially speakers, that is largely responsible for that impression. Anyhow with lossy codecs you get the caricature. Switch them off and you get Renee Flemming's glorious sound back with her lovely velvet voice.
The other thing that really strikes you is that the brass has a pinched quality and looses its lusty roar and roundness of tone
Its fine if lossy codecs work well for pop music, but the rest of us need to stay with a high definition format, of which a CD is a bench mark of the minimal acceptable standard.
