In Reply to: RE: World hunger can be cured with the savings from MP3 compression posted by Tony Lauck on December 12, 2012 at 08:41:42:
Tony: "These listening tests are going in the wrong direction. If people want to experience the mental torture of listening tests, then they may as well do something useful, and do tests that might prove that more bits are useful in providing better sound, i.e. significantly more bits than are presently used to store CDs. Some of us have done these tests and realize that the CD format itself has less than 25% of the bits necessary for correct reproduction of audio."
Where are these (reputable) results suggesting we need 4x the bits?
Even if you do not believe the pooled results are valid, why not try this yourself as a challenge to see how well your ears / brain / equipment discriminate what surely must be a slam dunk! After all, the MP3 file size is only 25% of that 25% of what is "necessary for correct reproduction of audio".
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- RE: World hunger can be cured with the savings from MP3 compression - Archimago 12/13/1220:11:22 12/13/12 (18)
- RE: World hunger can be cured with the savings from MP3 compression - Tony Lauck 06:05:39 12/14/12 (17)
- RE: World hunger can be cured with the savings from MP3 compression - Archimago 09:40:52 12/14/12 (13)
- To be fair - Tony's preferences in music are well-known, and those 3 tracks... - carcass93 09:48:26 12/14/12 (12)
- RE: To be fair - Tony's preferences in music are well-known, and those 3 tracks... - Tony Lauck 10:18:54 12/14/12 (11)
- RE: To be fair - Tony's preferences in music are well-known, and those 3 tracks... - Ryelands 12:58:10 12/14/12 (9)
- RE: To be fair - Tony's preferences in music are well-known, and those 3 tracks... - Tony Lauck 13:38:49 12/14/12 (8)
- RE: To be fair - Tony's preferences in music are well-known, and those 3 tracks... - Ryelands 14:08:58 12/14/12 (7)
- RE: To be fair - Tony's preferences in music are well-known, and those 3 tracks... - Tony Lauck 14:24:05 12/14/12 (6)
- RE: To be fair - Tony's preferences in music are well-known, and those 3 tracks... - Archimago 10:11:45 12/15/12 (1)
- RE: To be fair - Tony's preferences in music are well-known, and those 3 tracks... - Tony Lauck 10:54:29 12/15/12 (0)
- And what does that say? - DrChaos 21:11:20 12/14/12 (2)
- RE: And what does that say? - Archimago 10:04:48 12/15/12 (0)
- Working at threshold is a guaranteed of mid-fi performance at best. - Tony Lauck 07:04:48 12/15/12 (0)
- RE: To be fair - Tony's preferences in music are well-known, and those 3 tracks... - Ryelands 15:33:40 12/14/12 (0)
- RE: To be fair - Tony's preferences in music are well-known, and those 3 tracks... - Archimago 11:05:51 12/14/12 (0)
- RE: World hunger can be cured with the savings from MP3 compression - Ryelands 07:48:38 12/14/12 (2)
- RE: World hunger can be cured with the savings from MP3 compression - Tony Lauck 08:01:45 12/14/12 (1)
- RE: World hunger can be cured with the savings from MP3 compression - Ryelands 08:25:58 12/14/12 (0)