Re: Why bother with lossy encoding?

hhhmmmmmmmm....

Use Audacity to interject a few DBs of low-end bass....


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        Billy Geiger
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      (40 miles east
         of Atlanta)

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Roger <[email protected]> wrote:

> > 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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