The British Federation of Audio (BFA) condemns low bit-rate audio files
Posted by Sachin Garg on 13th February 2006 | Permanent Link
The British Federation of Audio (BFA) – the UK’s specialist AV consumer electronics trade body - has come out saying it’s concerned that consumers are not getting the enjoyment they could from their portable music devices or Hi-Fis, with today’s music fans happy to download and listen to low bit-rate music files – which often don’t come even close to CD quality.
As storage becomes more cheaper, lossless audio is without doubt the future.
What do you think is an acceptable bit-rate for compressed audio? Does digital compression bother you or at the end of the day is it the quality of the songs themselves that’s most important?