Re: AAC VBR and CBR

I haven't had that problem.

Which version of Nero are you using - 5.5.10.0, 5.5.10.28, other?  Do you 
hear the "tweadle" on you computer or just on the ipod?


At 04:54 PM 5/14/2003 -0600, Gordon Harris wrote:

>I've done some non-blind testing with the Nero AAC encoder vs. PsyTel
>aacenc_mpeg4.exe V2.15.
>
>My test track was track 2 from "Quotation of Dream" by Toru Takemitsu,
>Deutsche Grammophon 453 495-2.
>
>The recording (I think) was from a live performance.  Scoring is for two
>pianos, percussion & orchestra.  The dynamics seem to be mostly P down to
>PPPP.
>
>The track was extracted to a WAV via EAC and converted to Mp3 with Lame,
>M4As with PsyTel, Nero and QTpro 6.1 and all were xfered to my winpod via
>Ephpod 2.70a.
>
>In EVERY encoding I tried with the Nero AAC encoder (normal, extreme,
>audiophile, transcoding ultra, all at high quality) the resulting M4A had a
>more or less (but always audible) "tweadle" in the background when played on
>the iPod...which I assume is an encoding artifact (as opposed to a decoding
>artifact, I guess.)  Neither Lame or PsyTel seemed to suffer from this
>artifact with this track.
>
>Anyone else hearing things that shouldn't be there with the Nero AAC
>encoder?


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