jamietre;160221 Wrote: 
> It's not a fair comparison, since the 128k stream is MP3 encoded whereas
> the 1411 stream is uncompressed. For example, you could stream a CD at
> about half that bitrate (e.g. 705 kbps or so) using FLAC encoding, with
> absolutely no loss in quality, since FLAC is a lossless encoding method.
> 
> 
> There's no sense in directly comparing bitrates between two different
> encoding methods (e.g. compressed vs. not, or even MP3 vs. AAC vs. OGG)
> without also discussing the sonic characteristics of each stream.

Oh I agree, but the article states that CDs are recorded at
128kbs[sic].  That's clearly not true and is very easily verifiable.

When I see a big and obvious mistake like that, it makes the rest of
the article suspect.


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