On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Mark Taylor wrote:
> MPEG did very detailed listening tests in
> ISO MPEG 91/010 "The MPEG/AUDIO subjective listening tests"
> I've seen the results somewhere on the web (maybe mp3tech.org?)
> I think the conclusions were that expert listeners could not
> reliably tell the difference between original and compressed at
> 256kbs (using the reference FhG encoder)
AFICR, 224Kb/s was where most listners of most pieces couldn't tell the
difference. Unfortunatly, even at 320Kb/s some people could still easily
tell with some pieces.
I think the matters are worse if you consider EQ.
If you want to do archive, you can get lossless compression in the range
of 690Kb/s with algs like shorten.
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