Klarinet Archive - Posting 000270.txt from 2001/12

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Clarinetist Composer sound samples available
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 10:10:51 -0500

> From: Stan Geidel [mailto:sgeidel@-----.net]

> David, the quality of a CD to MP3 conversion should be lossless - there
> should be no loss of quality from one format to the next since
> you are going
> from digital to digital. That is, of course, unless you
> significantly reduce
> the bit rate when you rip the CD over to MP3. If you keep the
> bit rate the
> same, you will experience the same quality.

Even though MP3 is digital output, the algorithm used ends up with a lossy
conversion (it does predictive / adaptive compression); there's quantization
noise in there, and sometimes it's quite apparent.

Mark C.

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