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Report: Youth Prefer Tinny Sizzle of MP3s to Uncompressed Music

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 6, 2009 - 1:44pm.
London - A music professor at Stanford University has found over the course of an eight-year survey of his students that they have come to prefer the tinny sizzle sound of MP3s over the uncompressed sound from a vinyl record and other formats, the Times Online reported. "I found not only that MP3s were not thought of as low quality, but over time there was a rise in preference for MP3s," Berger told Times Online. The effect seems to be the opposite with older generations, who prefer the "warmth" and crackle of vinyl recordings. "Some people prefer that needle noise -- the noise of little dust particles that create noise in the grooves. I think there's a sense of warmth and comfort in that."

 

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Published in DMW Daily, March 6, 2009
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