For me the lowest acceptable bitrate for listening to music is 256kbps with MP3s. I still prefer lossless over any MP3. It's not that I can spot or describe any specific artifacts with 320kbps compression, but listening to lossless audio just feels betters.
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 2:52 AM, Eric Carmichel <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings to All: > > When it comes to surround sound coding/decoding, I never make a peep > because I'm ignorant on the topic. However, a friend who heads the Dept. of > Audiology at a children's hospital had asked a question regarding MP3s. > Although the MP3 format may be nothing more than a distant relative to > surround formats, the thought of using "lossy" file types in research > studies utilizing surround-sound stimuli does concern me. I answered my > friend's question (re MP3s) as best I could, and the answer is shown below > (I copied and pasted it verbatim--sorry for it's long length). Some of the > concerns outlined below may or may not apply to surround sound (?). > > Has anyone experienced odd artifacts while doing hybrid mixing (sounds > from monaural sources added to actual, or live, Ambisonic recordings) and > where sound files stored in lossy formats were converted to wav files? Re > surround sound for research: Are there file formats that should be avoided > as far as psychoacoustic research goes? Are all lossless formats > more-or-less equal in terms of 'purity'. > > Thanks in advance for any insights. > Eric C. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20130406/0bb2755e/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
