Re: Apple and EMI

J. J. Lodder <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ekul Namsob <notmyaddress.1.ekulnamsob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

" [...] EMI will be offered at higher quality 256 kbps AAC encoding,
resulting in audio quality indistinguishable from the original recording,
[...] "

And *THAT* is an outrageous lie. 320 kb/s AAC is easy to distinguish[1]
from a non-lossy-compressed version even with my (almost) 40 year old
years.

[snip]

Rowland.

[1] Admittedly, you need decent reproduction, but a 2GB iPod Nano with
Sennheiser PX100 headphones[2] is plenty good enough to hear the
difference clearly.

I'll wager you never tested it with a good double blind set-up,

Correct. The difference is too obvious to need it as far as I'm
concerned.

Thing is, I had in fact started out by assuming that 256 kbit/s AAC was
going to be as good as uncompressed, and I was pretty miffed to find out
that it wasn't, and nor was 320kbit/s. My built-in assumption
contradicted what my ears told me - so where's the need for a
double-blind?

Rowland.

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