On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 23:17 -0700, Kevin Cosgrove wrote: > I don't have the hardware required to listen to that, but a > friend of mine does. The disc has two songs on it, a jazz trio > (piano, upright bass & drums) and a string quartet. Each song > was simultaneously recorded at three different PCM resolutions: > 16-bit/44.1kHz, 24-bit/96kHz, and 24-bit/192kHz. Subsequent to > that they recoded the recordings into MP3, WMA, and AAC. My > friend and I listened to the recordings in order from expected > worst sound to expected best sound. MP3 sounded just OK. WMA > was slightly better to us, and AAC was again noticeably better. > The jump from AAC to 16-bit/44.1kHz was dramatic, as was the next > jump to 24-bit/96kHz. Going up to 24-bit/192kHz was also better > yet, but not as dramatic. After that we went back and listened > to MP3 again and it sounded as if it was being played through a > distortion pedal for an electric guitar by comparison. you did this all double blind, right? if not, then why bother? _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
