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> he says he could tell the difference between high bitrate mp3 and 16 bit 44k wav. In the early days, when all mp3 encoders were pretty bad, I could tell whic
by xiphmont 9y ago
> he says he could tell the difference between high bitrate mp3 and 16 bit 44k wav.
In the early days, when all mp3 encoders were pretty bad, I could tell which encoder produced a given file. mp3 encoders today are vastly better. I've not been able to do that party trick in a long time.
- cellularmitosis 9y agoI remember the Xing encoder was blazing lay fast, but sounded worse than LAME. This was around 1999, IRRC.
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agothank you for clarifying! It seems I slightly misrepresented your views...for that I'm sorry...I was going on memory of what I remember you saying.