MP3 Killed the Live Music Star

A recent O’Reilly Radar post talks about how incoming college students prefer low-bitrate MP3s over uncompressed files more and more each year. There’s nothing more sonically frustrating to me than listening to the heavily distorted, washing-machine highs in a low-bitrate MP3. I’m (fortunately or unfortunately) pretty adept at noticing the tell-tale slush in cymbal hits [...]