i have been compressing everything i encode to 44 Khz and 192 Kbps and i
find it to be nigh on indistinguishable from CD source material ... every
once in a while there will be a sparkley high frequency noise that
exhibits a bit of aliasing but wtf it's compressed to about 10% of the
original size of the soundfile so how can you complain?
vinyl sound quality is another story of course, but it's pretty
inconvenient to operate a record player while i drive :)
joshx
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On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, shipman wrote:
quoted 32 lines In blind testing using audiophile-type snobs, they were *unable* to
> > In blind testing using audiophile-type snobs, they were *unable* to
> > tell apart the original source recording from an MP3 encoded
> > @128kbps or higher.
>
> At 128kbps I would be hard pushed to find a track that didn't sound
> different from source to mp3, I think those 'audiophile-type snobs' should
> find another hobby... however I certainly agree that at 256 (and in many
> cases 192) there is no discernable difference.
> On a related side note, I have found Cipater (1st track chiastic slide, as
> if anyone here doesn't know :) actually sounds better (in a way) in a poor
> quality 128k encode. I mean, its just so oily and grindy to begin with, the
> lofi nastiness seems to help it along :)
>
> > Sure, it depends on codecs, algorhythms and other nice words, but
> > at the end of the day if there is a happy confluence of all the
> > relevant bits of technology, the result should be sweet and pleasing.
>
> The problem is, most people (particularly in the napster community) seem to
> have no idea that there are different codecs, or for that matter, different
> bitrates!
> Of course, most people who download the files are in the same boat as the
> encoders, which is where the myth of "mp3 sucks" comes from...
> I can't help but feel that if the makers of encoding software set the
> 'default' at 256kbps we'd see a lot more high quality mp3 files out there...
>
>
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