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In Reply to: RE: Some people don't hear a difference . . posted by John Elison on April 30, 2014 at 18:15:25
Of the MP3 straw man.
No one has defended MP3's on sound quality for a decade now.
"The problem with quotes from the internet is that many of them just are just made up."
-Abraham Lincoln
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"No one has defended MP3's on sound quality for a decade now."
If you search the Asylum you will find posts and posters who go so far as to say that many people prefer the sound of MP3 compared with the original lossless version. There is even a thread presently discussing this.
If a recording has little or no soundstage and if it suffers from electronic grunge the MP3 process may remove more electronic artifacts than musical information, making a presentation that many people prefer. The effect is similar to that of digital noise reduction that is sometimes used when remastering noisy analog recordings, but cruder since the goal is to reduce the number of bits rather than to "improve" the sound. However, if a recording is clean and has a natural soundstage the electronic slight of hand will fail as there will be no grundge to clean up but there will be a soundstage that the psycho-acoustic encoding can not retain. (Of course this assumes one has a decent system that offers clean sound and is using properly set up speakers that can project a soundstage and not a pair of ear buds.)
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
On PC Audio. :)
Yeah, I was wondering why they were comparing DSD to MP3. I thought that was rather ridiculous. I have no doubt that high-resolution PCM can compare directly with DSD, but not MP3.
Strange!
Best regards,
John Elison
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