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Saturday, June 30, 2012

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

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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