[AdamM]

How's this for maximum un-hifi-ness:

"A band has released an album on the near-obselete floppy disk format, managing to cram 74 minutes of music into 1.44MB of space."

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/127844/band-releases-album-on-floppy-disk.html

I bet it sounds great 

As for the heavy compression, here's what they had to say:

"Secondly, the scope of the project is to use heavy compression as a feature that shapes the music, instead of a limitation that reduces sound quality"


 

[JohnR]

Hah! I'm not even sure that I can read a floppy disk anymore..!

Someone should buy it though

[mgalusha]

I downloaded the sample and foobar won't play it but dbPower Amp does show the info on it...



.7KHz sample rate. Frightening but supposedly that is in service of the music. I did get it to play, sort of. All I was able to hear was a low frequency pulse, which my computer speakers (Bose) could barely reproduce.

[konut]

Thanks for this. I thought I'd never see the day that a digital medium was used to create music that the quality of which could be exceeded by 8 track tape. Further proof that the human race is doomed. 

[AdamM]

.7KHz sample rate. Frightening but supposedly that is in service of the music. I did get it to play, sort of. All I was able to hear was a low frequency pulse, which my computer speakers (Bose) could barely reproduce.

That was the track?  That's what it sounded like?  Ambient noisecore kind of thing?  Strange...

.7KHz !  AHAHaha

Oh dear, what is music becoming...