Reinhard, Because of the nature of the BMLD effect - it is dependent on the masking threshold (not energy) and not on the tonality.
More reading: J. D. Johnston and A. Ferreira, Sum-Difference Stereo Transform Coding, Proc. IEEE ICASSP (1992) p 569-571. or US patent #5285498 Regards, Ivan Dimkovic ----- Original Message ----- From: reinhard To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 8:39 AM Subject: [MP3 ENCODER] MS stereo hi i have some question about the ms threshold in aac first , the mthr/sthr what is it mean? second, why the BMLD only depend on energy thank for anwer _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder