Re: Apple and EMI

Jerome O'Donohoe <jerome@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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?

I feel your pain. I am afflicted with being able to hear the
compression in everything...and it drives me up the wall. Television
particularly. Channel 4 on Dsat for some reason is particularly bad.

That's a different thing though, that also drives me to distraction.
What you're hearing is audio compression, which is different to file
compression.

--
Andy Hewitt
<http://web.mac.com/andrewhewitt1/>
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