Re: Why bother with lossy encoding?

Le 14/03/2017 18:11, Roger a écrit :
>
> 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.
>
Hi, I've got a Sony 3000 ES expanding them to 96 khz at playing, results 
are incredibly impressive with some CDs. With some others, that has been 
very poorly engineered, there's no difference, the sound remains tiny.

-- 
Sincerely, Stephane Ascoet


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