Same effect happens if you turn on SRS in the Apple iMAC (Surround sound)
Sounds awful. This is with any MPEG encoder, not specifically LAME.
Mark.
>I did some listening tests last night using lame v3.13.
>I decompressed the mp3 files (using mpg123 0.59q) onto a CD and
>played them on a recent stereo, using decent headphones for
>analysis. My ears are still fairly young (i'm 24), although I'm
>sure they got slightly zapped with all the nightclubs i've been
>going to lately :-)
>
>The sound file used was an extract from Around the World by
>Daft Punk. I'll put the wav file on the web and let you know the
>location.
>
>Anyway, using normal playback, sound quality at at 128 kbits
>was very good, but different than the original in a way which
>I could not figure out - it just didn't feel the same.
>At 160 kbits I could not tell the difference.
>
>Using the sound expander function on the CD player, things
>started to sound quite different. The expander, a common
>function on today's decent stereo systems, makes the music sound
>more spacious - as if the room was bigger and the speakers were
>more powerful... I guess it adds some sort of echo or delay,
>probably frequency dependent.
>
>At 128 kbits there was a very noticeable distortion - the
>clapping like noise after a drum beat was severly distorted -
>a "bubbly" sound, similar to the effect one gets when encoding
>anything at 64 kbits. The high frequency "organs" also
>sounded distorted - they didn't have smooth transitions.
>
>At 160 kbits these distortions were gone, although the
>music still sounded a little bit different.
>
>I hope this helps! Let me know if you need more info about
>these tests.
>
>Cheers,
>
>conrad
>
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