This is entirely subjective, and I imagine you're going to get a zillion
replies from people quoting bitrates and compression ratios.
Myself personally, I've used LP2 compression often for recording 160 min
mixes of electronic music from Shoutcast servers. To tell you the truth,
even with an excellent pair of earbuds, the quality loss is barely
noticeable. Doing a test, I did a digital recording from a CD three times.
Once normal, once LP2, once LP4. Normal sounded great of course. LP2 was
barely (and I mean BARELY) discernable from the normal recorindg. LP4 is
where you really start to hear the compromises being made, but depending on
what you're recording, LP4 could be fine (voice material like recording a
meething, for instance).
These are just my personal experiences. My ears aren't messed up and I
don't have a crummy pair of earphones. :)
---
Mike Lastucka, B. Tech
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>From: Firstname Lastname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: MD: MDLP
>Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 07:40:49 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>AS stated in my previous message, I've been out of MD
>for a while. I come back to find this wonerful new
>technology, MDLP, which turns out to merely be lower
>bit-rate sampling, much to my dismay.
>
>Can anyone comment on the sound quality? I personally
>can't tell the different between 320Kbps and 256Kbps
>mp3s, but I CAN (barely) hear the difference between
>320 and 128. 128 is, generally, perfectly acceptable
>to me. Especially when using a pair of cheap PC
>speakers or earbuds. However, I've noticed that
>92Kbps and lower really starts to sound like trash.
>
>I've read the LP faq
>(http://www.minidisc.org/mdlpfaq.html) and messed
>about with the sample files they have, but does anyone
>have any real-world experience they can share?
>Subjectively, how do LP2 and LP4 recordings compare to
>say, 128K mp3s?
>
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