Klarinet Archive - Posting 000319.txt from 2001/12

From: "Benjamin Maas" <benmaas@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] MP3 vs CD audio
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 13:11:57 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David [mailto:reedman@-----.com]

>
> I personally don't have a music only CD writer, but wonder if the
> CD's that
> are for the Music only CDR are re-writable as well? (by default)

I really don't know as I don't ever use CD-RWs for audio. I've had too much
trouble with them playing in some CD players in the past.

> PS - Mp3's are not bad sounding if encoded with a good encoder
> and at a high
> enough bit rate (at least 128 KBPS and preferably more). They
> don't distort
> the Clarinet like typically recording on a cassette tape can do.
> An MP3 is a
> compressed data product, but can sound very good.
>
> David Blumberg
> http://mp3.toptempo.com/genres/Classical@-----.htm

128 KBPS is the minimum bit rate that MP3's sound "decent." If you
critically compare them to the 16 bit original, they still don't sound as
good, though. 320 KBPS is really quite close to 16 bit 44.1 uncompressed,
but it isn't much of a compression (about 6:1 if I remember correctly?) but
you still can hear the difference.

My point wasn't that MP3 always sound horrible, but that they are a lossy
compression scheme and therefore will never sound as good as the original.
If you have a great sounding master, you will have a decent sounding MP3 at
high bit-rate. It just won't be quite as good as the master....

--Ben

Benjamin Maas
Fifth Circle Audio
Los Angeles, CA
benmaas@-----.com
http://www.fifthcircle.com

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