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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: AW: Question about CD-Quality and MP3Re: AW: Question about CD-Quality and MP3
From: Christi Alice Scarborough <christi_at_chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 05:07:04 +0000 Neon John wrote: >Finally! Another rational person regarding bitrates. I should have >figured it would have been you, 'chip :-) There is rampant insanity >out there regarding bitrates. I'll pulled down audio books with the >rate set to 360kbps! Absurd. > >I have very good hearing, especially for my age, and I can't tell the >difference in most material at 160kbps. I've also settled on 192kbps >on my computer and 128k for my JBR, the latter being a good compromise >between sound quality and battery life. > Annecdotally I can tell you that a friend lent me some 192kpbs MP3s that I listened to for a while before buying the album. I could hear enough difference on the CD that at first I thought I was listening to a different mix of the album, which I certainly wasn't expecting. This was via my stereo though - I believe the difference is less detectable when listening on earphones. Christi Received on 2006-02-02 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |