I had posted,
> No, I'm saying that a cumulative effect does exist, but it is not as great as
> what you'll expect if you multiply compression ratios. Putting audio through
> 10:1 MP3 compression and the MP3 output through 5:1 ATRAC compression sounds
> worse than the MP3 file, but it would not be as bad as 50:1 compression.
Matt Wall replied with the following text, which uses the word "you." Below
it he quoted my post. Apparently I'm his "you" just as the person to whom I
was replying was my "you."
| one question i've not heard this question asked. you said you heard no
| quality difference.
Huh? I said that "a cumulative effect does exist" and that the MD copy of an
MP3 "sounds worse" than the MP3. How on earth Matt got the idea that those
words mean "I hear no quality difference" is beyond me. He went on to ask
a question based on that strange interpretation:
| well are you listening to the audio using the same sound setup?
and to theorize that the claim of identical sound that I never made could
have derived from listening to the MD on better playback equipment than the
MP3 file.
If something never happened, then "It didn't happen" is an adequate answer
for "Is this how it happened?" So my answer is this: it didn't happen.
Again, the MD would sound (perhaps imperceptibly) worse than the MP3, but not
as bad as the person who originally asked the question expected from multi-
plying the compression ratios.
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