It depends always of the type of music you are listening.
Example given: for me Autechre can not be listen with bitrates below 256
kbps, while other musics like bossanova may be listen with 96 kbps. When I
code audio to mp3 I always use the option flexible bitrate...
regards
Cesar
----- Original Message -----
From: "Medium Graham" <medium_graham@yahoo.co.uk>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 5:33 PM
Subject: RE: [idm] Sound quality
quoted 49 lines I nearly cried with joy when I bought my first proper
> I nearly cried with joy when I bought my first proper
> hi-fi: a Marantz amp with Tannoy M1 speakers. It lets
> me hear so much detail that I had to re-listen to
> everything I own just to see what I had been missing.
>
> On the mp3 thing, I personally can hear the difference
> between 128kpbs mp3s and the original CD tracks, and I
> don't feel that I have especially good ears. The
> difference varies depending on the source material,
> but it's definitely there. 160kbps is a much better
> setting for me, and 256kpbs sounds perfect.
>
> Don't forget BTW, that a 128kbps stereo mp3, is
> actually two audio channels (left and right) at 64kbps
> linked together.
>
> um, all strictly IMO.
>
> G-love.
>
> http://www.gram.org.uk
>
> > Konstantin Minko wrote:
> >
> > mp3 128 does sound different from original source
> > recording, greatly. I can
> > hear that, though not always that clearly. the most
> > effect it has is on the
> > subconscious acceptance of atmosphear and panorama
> > and on clarity of the
> > higher frequencies...you can kill me for that
> > anyway...
> >
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