MP3s suck, as usual

[upstairs]

"Each was asked to rate the sounds they were hearing based on a list of emotional traits: romantic, calm, happy, shy, mysterious, angry, comic, sad and heroic.
...
romantic, calm, comic, heroic and happy were noticeably less present after files had been compressed into the MP3 format."

"They also suggest that the current trend in popular music toward growl-like tones or angry lyrics might have arisen due to their ability to translate well into the compressed file format."

Article: https://techxplore.com/news/2016-12-com ... -loss.html
Paper: http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=18523

EDIT: somewhat reminds me of this: http://drjohndiamond.com/what-interests ... ecordings/
You may or may not find it ridiculous.