I feel obliged to write this blog post because we’ve gotten several emails in the past few months where people are asking about the legitimacy of our WAVs. Basically, the concern has been expressed that we’re just taking MP3 files, converting them into WAVs, and then selling them for $1.50. [insert wrong answer buzzer sound]
The last email I got on this matter caught me when I was having a tough day and rubbed me wrong. In my opinion, it would be downright shady for us to merely convert MP3s into WAVs and then pass them off to you as higher quality files…so I just wanted to write this post to make it known, unequivocally, that Resonant Vibes does not do this.
I guess I understand why people might have this concern…$1.50 WAVs may just sound too good to be true. Some other sites are selling WAVs for nearly twice that amount, and I guess that leads some folks to think there must be a catch to what we’re doing.
The reality is there is no catch – other than the fact that we’ve had a policy of working hard to preserve our pricing structure, withstanding pressures from myriad sources over the years to make sure our customers pay what we consider to be a fair price.
I should make one additional fine point here…We do not have perfect knowledge about the files our content providers deliver. For example, if one of our content providers were to deliver an MP3 file that had simply been re-encoded as a WAV, we would not realistically have a way of catching that. However, I would be surprised if this happens because we deal with reputable content providers. Moreover, if they were delivering such files to us, they would also be delivering them to the other sites, which charge considerably more for the same download.
Now, in the immortal words of Forrest Gump, “That’s all I have to say about that” 
Eddie B
