Re: [SurroundSound] Re: Bit Rate Resolution, Sampling Rate, Upsample, and Lossless vs. Lossy ....

'portable devices' are still extremely popular, you know.
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lokkerman <phil.steeples@gmail.com> wrote:

>the point is this:
>Why do we need lossy today? Apart from portable devices coding such as
>FLAC should do, so why lossy?
>
>On Jun 28, 8:07 pm, "Steven Sullivan" <ssu...@panix.com> wrote:
>> Interesting mp3 listening test results here
>>
>> http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/concluding-the-great-mp3-bit...
>>
>> some discussion of them here
>>
>> NB as it relates to this thread: DTS and AC3 are different lossy codecs
>> from each other, and from LAME -- you can't assume the audio quality
>> achieved at X bitrate is the same in all.  But the general trend is that
>> the ability hear difference between original and lossy goes down as
>> bitrate goes up, and that for a given codec there is a rate threshold
>> beyond which very few untrained listeners can reliably tell the
>> difference.
>
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