Re: [LAU] Lossy audio to lossless format

From: Markus Seeber <markus.seeber@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Oct 01 2014 - 17:17:54 EEST

On 1. Oktober 2014 15:14:22 MESZ, Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
>>
>> Your ears are probably the best tool. Some hear well, and some do
>not.
>> I am amazed at the number of people who cannot tell if mp3 has ever
>been
>> in the mix. To me its obvious, when your ears get tired of it, and
>want to
>> "change the station" in just a minute or so, its been an mp3 at some
>> point.
>>
>
>For crying out loud, stop this nonsense!
>
>It is established without any shadow of a doubt that the overwhelming
>majority of the population CANNOT tell the difference between a
>reasonable
>bit-rate encoding in mp3 format and the original PCM data. This isn't
>up
>for debate.
>
>Reasonable bit-rate means 256kbps; by the time you reach 320kbps even
>expert listeners have a very very hard time differentiating the mp3
>from
>the PCM in an ABX test.
>
>By all means talk about low bit rate encodings and how they are no
>good,
>but please folks - double blind testing doesn't lie, and the double
>blind
>tests are close to unambiguous at this point.
>
>
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Exactly.
Also, mp3 did change in quality over the years, but if you have old low Bitrate mp3, well... thats your fault. Same goes for using old/crappy implemented encoders/decoders.
-- Markus

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