Re: Why bother with lossy encoding?

Le 09/03/2017 21:59, Johnny Rosenberg a écrit :
> After listening to lossy formats I found that the result depends a lot on
> the original sound. If the original sound is a poor noisy old recording
> from the 60's or even earlier, not even 256 kb/s (mp3) is enough to avoid
> audible artefacts. A good original however, may sound good enough at 160
> kb/s (mp3). With Ogg/Vorbis files at least one step lower bitrate may be
> ok. Hiss sounds seems to be very tricky to handle for those psycho acoustic
> data reducing algorithms.

Yes it seems we are so different because for me the most important is 
the "emotion" I get, so I like a good LP or tape but get bored by most 
digital sound, except good DSD or PCM played with high-end audiophilic DAC.
-- 
Bien cordialement, Stephane Ascoet


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