Let me reintroduce you to a tool to analyze and show the compression grade and quality of a cd mastering: http://lts.a.se/lts/masvis
You can find out if a (re)mastering of a recording have a higher or lower headroom or compression in hard figures and diagrams. http://lts.a.se/lts/analyser-molt here you can find data on different masterings of Michal Jackson - thriller and Jennifer Warnes - Famous blue raincoat This will show the progression and consequenses of the loudness war on the same masters. Best Regards Bo-Erik Sandholm -----Original Message----- From: Sursound [mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Ronald C.F. Antony Sent: den 21 augusti 2014 14:42 To: s...@mchapman.com; Surround Sound discussion group Subject: Re: [Sursound] [OT] The more bits the better ? I wish they would start worrying about the other compression aka loudness wars, before worrying about high-res audio. A well-mastered CD has all the resolution needed for playback, provided the playback system is good, and the original recording and processing was done in high-res and there were no mistakes made during mastering. MP3 is surprisingly good when then encoding software used is well written and VBR is used at the highest quality setting. But the loudness wars will ruin any sound, and every bit over the lousiest MP3 is a total waste until mixing/mastering changes. Sent from a crippled mobile device > On 21 Aug 2014, at 14:29, Michael Chapman <s...@mchapman.com> wrote: > > > One of those : 'not so much what they are sayig, but who is saying it' > things : > > <http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/21/mp3-cd-24-bit-audio-music-hi-res> > > which may, or may not, be of interest . . . > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit > account or options, view archives and so on. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2270 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20140821/0ab631f7/attachment.bin> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on. _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
