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Re: Digital Compression - was New SSM

Subject: Re: Digital Compression - was New SSM
From: madl74
Date: Wed Jul 17, 2013 2:27 am ((PDT))
> Robin, you're missing my point. I'm saying that the conversion to MP3
> leaves a lot of information out. And I can't say I've ever heard an MP3
> version that sounds as good as a Wav version


In all the A-B tests I did on mp3. I never heard anything left out. MP3
always _adds_ artifacts, but with higher rates, these are low and perfectly=

acceptable.

There is no such thing as a perfect recording, and the problems I hear in
many recordings are not usually generated by mp3. A good stereo image is
often rare and this is much more important, as well as control of off-axis=

sounds reproduced as out of phase content. We often hear phase stereo
recordings offered up as volume stereo, and without defining the listening=

method, any stereo is liable to be all over the place.

With the art of nature recording, mp3 artefacts at high sample rates are th=
e
least of our worries.

David Brinicombe








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