callesoroe wrote: > What I meant was that you need to have good source material to reveal > the differences. A bad recording compressed and mastered to death in the > studio, then I agree it is difficult to hear the difference(if any). But > when the source material is great, the you will certanly hear it. > I did not mean anything like bad rips or so. I just operate with > accurate rips.
Interesting. Although my opinion differs. IMO better quality masters with good dynamic range and generally "quieter" overall presentations allow modern encoders like LAME to be even more efficient and requiring less number of bits for the perceptual coding. Forcing them into 320kbps with these better recordings actually allows the algorithm to encode even more inaudible & unperceptable information. The reason I say this is that when I did the MP3 test back in December, I specifically chose high quality samples PLUS one very loud and clipped metal track suggested by someone. If you just look at the variance in the WAV files after encoding & decoding, the clipped, loud, poorly mastered track was more difficult for the LAME encoder than the others to handle - hence producing more opportunity to differentiate the sound. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98374 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
