That's a pretty broad brush dismissing 'MP3s', as there are a lot of ways to data compress audio today. Granted there have been many instances where bad encoding or slow rates have diminished the aural experience, but newer compression techniques and better algorithms get the audio to a point where even 'golden ears' can't tell the difference vs 'CD resolution' in blind tests. I've gotten great results with the 'mastered for iTunes' setting on my Fraunhofer-Sonnex encoder ( 256kbit VBR m4a with 'clip safe' ).
Certainly the original article proves nothing, as reducing any bandwidth reducing technique to its worst level is going to sound/look bad. The science of perception and music is an interesting area, and I've recently befriended an expert, one of the people behind the science of music data compression. Here's an entertaining and lively lecture given by James D. (JJ) Johnston for the Audio Engineering Society has opened my eyes to how subjective the process is and how external things influence one's opinion about a particular method of transmission - be it tubes / transistors , compression types, etc. , 'masking' and how we perceive sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_LN7qUiTpo On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:10 AM, Ralph DiMola <rdim...@evergreeninfo.net> wrote: > I do and always have had a hard time listening to mp3s. If any of these > kids > today ever heard original German pressings of Beethoven's 5th Symphony or > Beatles Revolver on reference system, I think they would be more than > amazed. Just try to hear the little hi-hat nuance in Steely Dan's Peg from > the Aja album in a mp3. > -- Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
