cool...


On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 11:18 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>wrote:

> On Mon Dec  9 17:54:11 EST 2013, conor.williams@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > FLAC seems huge (again) compared to Mp3 but I will try the Flac -
> according
> > to:
> > http://www.head-fi.org/t/654057/alac-vs-flac
> > there is good compression alright...
>
> sure.  but that's not engineering.  engineering is balancing the cost
> of a resource vs the benefit.  so we're trading storage against sound
> quality.  storage is ~$15/GB, and sound quality is subjective.  so
> it's up to the customer to determine where on this continuum the
> solution should be.  but it does seem a tad rich to say that an extra
> $10 or so of storage is extravagant  (assuming steve's 50% compression.)
>
> - erik
>
>