I love audio in lossless format!


Oh wait, i am not exactly sure if my ears can differentiate between lossless .FLAC/ .tta , and lossy 320kbps .mp3 and 128kbps .mp3.

But by now my ears should be very familiar with lossless audio since from a long time ago i started listening in that format on my Altec Lansing speakers.



Anyways, i had downloaded Touhou doujin albums sold at Comiket 79, and they are all in .tta lossless, so they take up quite some space.

(And of course i feel a little guilty as well. I am gonna go visit Japan and really buy the albums (and many of other things) instead, in about, eh, 3 to 5 years time?)

And i love the sweet and high-pitched voices of songs from certain music circles in .... erm, lossless format.




...Yeah i am still, still wondering if i can really differentiate lossless from lossy audio. Probably it has got to do with my speakers, since a lossy 192kbps .mp3 song sounds (a bit) "out of place" or grainy.



In the end, it might all be some placebo/psychological effect, since i already knew beforehand what format it is in.








Same explanation (roughly) applies to skincare/healthcare products.

The normal consumer doesn't always at least take A level Biology or even O level still (and to some extent, Chemistry).
Most of us don't know what exactly that cream or tablet is doing for and to our body, or its mechanism, or if its advertised effects are a well-concealed scam. (Applies to us who are taking Biology also.)

And so today the news reported that, according to a scientific research and study which i think is British, those collagen-containing products don't work; they don't help much in regenerating whatever things that they are marketed to do, including applying on the skin or taken orally as the collagen protein can't really penetrate into the skin and will also be broken down into amino acids if taken orally.


Heh i knew this is coming (though it's a bit late for me to claim this victory about suspecting this lol, and of course you guys and gals won't believe i had actually suspected collagen products from a long time ago when i learnt about collagen in biology) though it could be common sense as well.


I wonder if this is gonna destroy the market for products marketing what producers and consumers want collagen to do.



I guess..... not.


And probably those skincare products which boasted about using "gene science" will sooner or later be down as well, since in my opinion if nucleic acids can be so easily manipulated especially on the outside then all the problems and limitations of gene therapy treating tricky diseases like CF would not exist as well.
Besides if these products were to really work, then we (or I) gotta start worrying about them affecting our own DNA and RNA in our body and causing cancer and other problems.

Though L'Oreal, from what i had read last time, seem to be safe from legal complaints about misleading information, since their ads mentioned " "INSPIRED" by genetic science/technology", and doesn't have to involve genetic concepts itself. Nice. Nice... inspiration.



Then again, if one is very rich then i really don't care whether he/she spends tonnes of money on them.


And then again, if one has money to throw away, then why not give it to me huh. I want money to..... hmm let's see, i want money to get a violin and take violin classes.

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Currently hooked on classical Touhou music arranges from TAMusic. Seriously, they are awesome.


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Touhou Fan.


Listens mostly to Touhou doujin music

(Because the creator of Touhou (ZUN) is damn talented, his BGM for the game series are godly, including the game series he made itself, and hence many dedicated groups of musicians do arranges of his original BGM)

("Arranges" are one level higher than "covers")


Very Japanese-oriented, absolutely not Korean-crazy like the crowd out there

Watches Japanese anime



Wants to do, learn and try many, many things, but finds it hard to find the time, commitment, and energy to do all of that


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