>> B5 music sounds really flat sounds when MP3'd, this is probably
>> because MP3 removes sounds as well as compression. Its fine on MiniDisc
>> though. If you
> No, thats not the case. If you bring up the bit rate to minimum 160kb and
> have a good encoder (some cut off at 20khz) and have a good decoder, then it
> is hard to notice the difference.
> However, if you rate at 120kb/s compression and processing becomes invasive,
> causing dropouts and breathing.
If you're listening to The Edge radio station then you're listening to 192kbps MP3...
> There are a few encoders which sound good, but after having a few 'social
> enhancements' the quality deteriorates (perceived sound I mean). Typically
> the MusicMatch real-time encoder is a 20khz cutoff job. Yea, I know, we cant
> hear higher than about 15khz, but it is the transient information which is
> valuable, and that is in the 15khz and above areas.
It's possible to play 2 sounds outside our hearing range to produce a note within our
hearing range - such are the wonders of wave theory... It is believed by many
audiophiles that much of the richness of certain sounds come from interference
with waves outside our hearing range...
> Re decoders if you are using Winamp then you are using a really bad decoder.
> Our new freeware player uses the Xing decoder which is pretty clean. I am
> not saying its the best, but certainly a big improvement on Winamp.
Interesting since in earlier invocations the Xing encoder was rated as one of the
worst... This may have since been remedied.... Results of distortion analysis from
> There is a great future for these forms of audio compression. Using 160kb/s
> MP3 is getting pruddy dammed close. But the new formats of VQF and MP4 and
> even MS (WMS) are capable of audiophile response given a good
> encoder/decoder combination.
I was disappointed with WMS as a compression improvement but it does produce
slightly less noticeable artifacts at the same bitrates as MP3 - Has anyone
investigated
using WMS as a recording medium ffrom any delphi applications - the APIs are available
I believe...
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Aaron Scott-Boddendijk
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