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Originally Posted by emiko
Yes she does, which is something I like. I'm not complaining but I do think it's still odd.
But actually, this whole "if you have HQ equipment" stuff...I mean, you need REALLY HQ stuff. It's not like, just go buy $400 headphones and $1000 speakers and you're fine.
This is like, near recording quality, and you need that stuff to appreciate it. Apparently, it goes beyond just "sound" perception.
But I'm sure we're going to have 50 million people who can hear the difference like night and day lol
Even though I'm about 99% positive, that, there's like probably like 2 people here who know what 44kHz 24 bit actually means.
I mean, for me, this is a good thing, because I want to move away from the standards everyone has now. I mean, we should all be listening to music, in at least lossless format....but is that practical? No, everyone still wants 320 cbr which is, not ideal at all.
Whatever, all I'm saying is, there is A LOT that goes into these track qualities and such...and, the difference isn't going to be huge, unless they MAKE it so. And that's not a good thing, because it means that all her other stuff was crappily made lol
This is not a complaint, so people dont be idiots and be like "why are people complaining." This is just whats on my mind about it.
And it's cool that Ayu is at the forefront, but I wonder who actually came up with this idea, because I doubt she is really privy to the whole audio debates lol
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I don't think I'm understanding what you're saying correctly, are you saying that to get people to notice a difference they would have to make the quality on her CD lower and that if the that's the case than all of her CDs were crappily made?
The quality that they're making these songs in is so high that it won't fit on a CD, right? In order to have songs fit on CD format the quality has to be lowered anyway so I guess this release is a way of saying, here's what the music REALLY sounds like. And if you get the CD-only and the USB, you could probably compare and see for yourself which you prefer, no? If fans LOVE the UHQ format, Ayu would probably make it available again the future (like she's doing the USB thing again) and if fans don't notice the difference and would rather stick with the CD for less money, she could continue down that path. I think this release, just like with the majority of her releases since Memorial address, is about choice. And the only way to see if fans will like the UHQ format is to make it available.