On 15/08/2013, Michael Biel wrote: > Don't forget it is not only us old farts with lousy hearing -- the > kids have been ruining their hearing at a faster rate than we had. > There is a thought some have that MP3 is BETTER for their ears than > wideband now. MP3 files don't have less high frequency sound than uncompressed files. They are simply less accurate. > Plus, most of them have never known what live unaugmented music > sounds like. Pity. > I think everyone must have heard an acoustic guitar on its own. It is still a big challenge for an audio system to reproduce the sound of a solo acoustic guitar at a realistic level. And many will have heard a real piano. Regards -- Don Cox [log in to unmask]