Ime it can be hard to tell what file actually would confuse a codec , so don't fall into the trap that "this track sounds good and audiophilish and therefore must be hard to code with lossy codec" .
afiak classic orchestral works is easy to code just because it is complex and much of the sounds and instruments bleed into each other , and playing in sections is also in big band jazz . The human masking effect is what the codec uses here . An old test track is Suzanne Vegas Tom's Dinner , the original a cappella version , historically it has been tricky for codecs single voice very dry almost no reverb and that humans are evolved to recognise other human voices . Certainly that metal track may actually stress encoders we will see . On a similar topic mp3 decoders (the player ) for example the fixed point mad encoder in the squeezebox . I found that a track from "Infected Mushroom, Vicious Delicious" would upset it (sorry cant remember the specific track ,not a particularly good record to listen to ,a party request ) . So if would use 320k mp3 as my main library i would consider server side decoding . This effect is real not the audiophile nonsense about flac vs wav , by real i mean that there is a real difference in the signal and it can be heard on some tracks (not all ) . And sorry no my main hifi/ht is still not functioning , I tried with my Adam a3x computer speakers (very good I recomend them ) and pedestrian soundcard (not recomended) if i cant make a try in my real hifi i upload that result . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97530 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
