Phil Marlowe wrote in a message to Charles Angelich:

PM> And what is that game or skill of folding paper:
PM> origami? or something like that word.

Yes.  I bought my granddaughter a book on how do to that stuff...

PM> commercial-type run-of-the-mill CDs having -less- range on the 
PM> sound spectrum than the old vinyl records, but as I say I may be 
PM> mistaken. I think also mentioned was a superior type of CD that had 
PM> greater range, that was coming or was already out on the market.

> With CDs using zeros and ones the range limitations are imposed by 
> the software writer/reader. I just read the uppper/lower
> limitations for MP3 the other day and can't remember them right now 
> but a test program I wrote many years ago indicated that even children
> usually can't hear above 18k and I know MP3 goes to 20k possibly 
> higher.

PM> In that case, it won't make any difference to me -- having left 
PM> childhood long ago. Not that I myself notice any difference. My 
PM> record collection being pretty old and worn, the CDs actually sound 
PM> much better.

Mine too,  and then there's the damage to my hearing,  from a number of
causes way back when...

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