Codec snobs

This guy is a complete doofus:

There are vast numbers of audiophiles out there who have not participated in the MP3 (or AAC) revolution because the audio quality simply is poor.

To me, listening to music recorded at 128 kps is like listening to an old AM transistor radio from the 1960-70's. I simply can't tolerate it. I can barely tolerate 320 kps on my computer system, but still can't tolerate it on my home or car system.

While I can't tell you how many people out there feel as I do, I'm sure it's not an insignificant number. After all, there's enough of us that we are driving a new market for high quality music recording....SACD's and DVD Audio.

This is like saying, "I can't bear to look at images in JPEG format. It's like watching the world through a cataract! That's why I'll only view pictures in raw, uncompressed TIFF image form." There are beer snobs, wine snobs... and now there are digital music snobs.

I would bet good money that this guy would fail a double-blind test.