On 16/02/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 16/02/07, Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > On 14/02/07, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > >> My wife cannot notice the difference, even with good headphones on and I > >> cringe at most mp3 music. My biggest problem is "Stairway to Heaven" I > >> have yet to get a good ogg or mp3 version of this song. Same with many > >> live recordings. > >> > > > > Yes, Stairway and the Battle of Evermore I had to rerip at 320 bps to > > get rid of an echo in both songs. The rest of my collection is 256, > > with a few exceptions. I don't really like live recordings, so I > > haven't tried those. > > > > The versions from Symbols? Do you remember what time/part it was at? There are other versions? I've only got the 320 on hand right now, but I can rerip the disc at 128/256 if you want. Listening to Stairway at 320, I think that I remember the echo at about 7:20 or so in the cymbals.
Thanks. (Others; BBC Sessions, a couple from the DVD, various bootlegs they're all live though, but I wanted to check. Actually I quite like the sound on the BBC sessions version.)
I'd actually like to note that my music collection is in mp3 as I feel it's slightly better sounding than ogg. I don't remember what turned me off about ogg, but I decided not to use it. I only mention it because someone mentioned earlier in the thread that ogg sounds better. My music tastes usually include heavy guitar and drums, with not a small bit of electronic peices: Led Zepplin, Machina (Israeli rock), Pantera, Sepultura, Nine Inch Nails, Rammstien, Ministry. Appears that guitar doesn't compress so well in ogg. That was about 2002-ish, while Windows was still installed on this machine. Might I see better results ripping ogg with a newer Linux program?
There has been at least one improvement in encoding since then. <https://trac.xiph.org/browser/trunk/vorbis/CHANGES> Also the recent aoTuV tunings are supposed to be a big improvement, though I don't know if you can get an aoTuV based encoder as an rpm <http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=AoTuV>. Not worth worrying about too much if you're using FLAC anyway. -- imalone
