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  2. Tapers.

  3. You've opened Pandora's Box. We should close this topic and go hide on an nuclear shelter
  6. If you wanna know why everyone on U2t is obsessed with lossless, I suggest you ask everyone on U2t.

    If you're interested in reasons to collect/share lossless files in general, the search function and the faq on this site might give you answers - you're beating a dead horse, though.
  7. the people on U2t aren't as nice as they are on here though
  8. With the tapers it's them who might request it rather than the non-tapers themselves. Notes in the torrent sometimes list that.
  10. This is going to be Topic of the Month. I love it. I added it to my bookmarks already
  11. The long and short of it:

    -Some people CAN tell the difference between lossless and an mp3. I myself cannot, but I have absolutely no quarrel with those who claim to be able to- if they can hear it, more power to them.

    -Tapers prefer all their content be in lossless because they are the ones who have taped shows and made their recordings available to the entire world, and in the grand scheme of things, with very little recognition (I've listened to about 150 bootlegs and I couldn't match up a single taper to a single show save for one.). They like to ensure that their content is in lossless because that's the way they've recorded it- they shouldn't be "settling" for a downgraded mp3 version of something when they're one of the ones helping do the work to make you and I happy.

    -No matter what you'd like to argue, there's a scientific explanation for why lossless technically sounds better than an mp3...so let's not have that debate, it's really not worth it.

    -If it's not affecting you directly, best to just keep on listening to what you want to listen to and let those who want the lossless, hunt the lossless
  12. Its mainly a measure against degradation after successive burning and ripping. If you do that lossy, it will sound like crap after a few iterations.