m1abrams;279302 Wrote: > I am sorry but I do not think you understand his quote. He says that an > mp3 MUST loose data in order to have such small file sizes. You can not > argue that fact, that is the definition of a lossly compression. Which > is all you quoted was someone describing a lossly compresson method. > Also he never says or implies that mp3 are distorted, but the fact is > they do not contain all of the original data.
The point is, file size is not a good measure of how much information was lost. His factor of 10 is close to meaningless. I don't think I'm misunderstanding him - I think he doesn't understand that. (If he did and still wrote that, he's being disingenuous.) -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44532 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
