Re: Why bother with lossy encoding?

Roger <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Mar 2017 13:11:50 -0400
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.audio.audacity.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 11:59:31AM +0100, Stephane Ascoet wrote:
>Le 09/03/2017 21:59, Johnny Rosenberg a ?crit :
>> 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.

Ditto here, as I consider myself to have good ears for classical music.

Extracted all of my CD's into PCM WAV avoiding the lossy compression codecs, 
but still noticing the metallic/tin type sound reminiscent of CD grade audio, 
even with a 5.1 home stereo grade DAC.  I seem to prefer the 24-bit 48kHz 
sampling, but am no where near being rich to upgrade my entire music 
collection.  Can still recall the days of Tape and LP, where music was less 
tinny sounding.  But then that's also getting back to the days where tubes were 
also more common.

I've also tried upsampling the CD audio to 24-bit 48kHz sampling, while using 
an ALSA LP filter, helps but not significantly enough.  Shrugs, maybe my ears 
are just getting too old and too tired.

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