I think it's conflating a lot of stuff. It seems like he's talking about quantization, but I think he's actually talking about the actual MP3 (or any lossy) com

I think it's conflating a lot of stuff. It seems like he's talking about quantization, but I think he's actually talking about the actual MP3 (or any lossy) compression scheme. It's really screwed up. Actual MP3 will result in the 'rough edges' and all the nice stuff he describes. Well, kinda. The hilarious part is that while we some error introduced that sounds kinda like noise, MP3 is actually horrible at representing 'noise'. See the sizzle on your cymbals. I remember reading this article when it came out, and I wasn't particularly impressed by it then either.