RE: More ranting from me!

["Timothy Morris" <mail@xxxxxxx>]

In the interests of true double blind tests, I'm going to do it, but not
until my nephew gets home from school - I'll get him to burn the CD so I
don't know which track is which. I think I might have learned something
about mp3 here - I take it that the tracks are not reconstructed during
playback as they are with Meridian Lossless packing, so I can play them
back
through any HiFi? Not having played with it yet though I would imagine that
if you burn to an Audio CD the file sizes are the same as the original
uncompressed sample?

Lastly recommendations for a good encoder that I can download and use for
this experiment?

Tim.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nigel Orr [mailto:Nigel.Orr@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 20 June 2000 12:01
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] More ranting from me!
>
>
> At 11:59 20/06/00 +0100, you wrote:
> >journos in the early 90s), and converted it to a 56Kbit .mp3
> track. I'm not
> >playing this through my Hi-Fi, with four power amps, big floor
standing
> >speakers (and directional cables :)), just a Windows pc with
Cambridge
> >SoundWorks 30 quid speakers.
> >
> >My verdict: I don't know how you guys put up with it - it is
awful!
>
> I've never heard anyone suggest that anything less than 128kbit/sec
was
> awful.  128kbit/sec is usually used for 'radio' quality, and 256 or
over
> for 'hard to tell the difference from the original'.  If you really
mean
> 56kbit/sec, I'm not surprised it sounded awful.
>
> Did you 'rip' the CD directly?  Disconnect the CD's connections to the
> audio card, just leave the IDE connected, and do it again to make
> sure you
> start with a clean signal.  Then encode the MP3 and decode it again,
and
> write that to a CD, and write the unencoded track to another track on
the
> CD, and listen to them on your hi-fi.
>
> Now you can compare them more realistically, instead of with a sound
card
> and cheap speakers, and try various sample rates to pick the
> 'optimum'.  It's also worth adding that different MP3 encoders
> will affect
> the quality of the encoding.  I use Blade, but it's not the best
rated-
> Lame is apparently a better Linux one, dunno if it's available
> for Windows too.
>
> Nigel
>
>
>
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