what material produced artifacts? i havent heard any artifacts as such.
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From: "Mathew Hendry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 7:38 AM
Subject: RE: [MP3 ENCODER] the new fraunhofer codec
> > From: Ampex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >
> > how is the quality of the new fhg codec, the one included in
> > musicmatch
> > jukebox, cool edit 2000 and nero? encoding time is very very
> > slow at highest
> > quality, is this any indication of a higher quality encode
> > taking place, or
> > simply bad programming? has anyone done any benchmarks of the codec as
> > compared to lame/mp3enc?
>
> I found the quality of this new codec disappointing. Although, bitrate for
> bitrate, it appears to reduce overall noise and improve frequency
response,
> it produced very annoying high frequency artifacts on a lot of the
material
> I tested, even at high bitrates. Overall, I think MP3Enc 3.1 sounds
better.
> YMMV.
>
> As for speed, FhG have never been the world leaders in that area. mp3enc
> -qual 9 isn't much faster.
>
> -- Mat.
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