Paul Ashmore said:
Fact 2. Storage is so affordable these days, there is no longer an argument for saving a lower quality file.
This is a fair point, but nowadays you should be rocking an ssd in any computer setup. They are not so spacious or affordable. Back to MP3's!
Paul Ashmore said:
Fact 11. If a DJ set is full of MP3s, and then recorded, and then compressed again for people at home to listen to, you get even worse information loss and degraded music because it’s been compressed numerous times.
And this really matters when the majority of your listener base will be listening through ipod headphones or worse still, laptop speakers? Irrespective of this, most will stream the broadcast which will degrade it to at least 320k, probably less.
Paul Ashmore said:
Fact 18. Even though you can’t hear above 20KHz, missing high frequencies perceive how you hear lower frequencies.
Never heard of this, the point is though that most producers will cull this frequency range anyway, because you cant hear it. Its the same set of frequencies they use to keep kids from standing outside mcdonalds. You know, the kind that fucking hurts. You dont want this in your music.
Paul Ashmore said:
Fact 20. MP3 can not code 5.1 stereo surround sound.
If you ever get a gig which is playing on a rig with anything else but mono, gimme a shout yeh. No-one would setup a rig in 5.1, you probably shouldnt try n bounce your stereo tunes down in that format either. Jus' sayin.
Aside from all these 'facts' theres one major bug-bear I've got with WAV; meta data.
All programs, mp3 players, etc are made to pick this stuff up to show you information about the track inside the program/device/whatever. WAV does not have this.
I don't know if you've ever tried to browse an untidy collection of music without cover art or any kind of consistency but its a fucking nightmare. So, as wicked as it may sound, if you cant find that next killer track, you look like a tit.
I have no quarrel with the fact that WAV sounds better than MP3 in perfect studio conditions, it does. It makes little difference though if youre playing out on a standard rig (aside from Funktion One, maybe) and youve got shit gain structure or mediocre hardware.