> The author takes pains to describe how the lossiness of MP3 encoding is audible. > Its biases are simply acknowledged and plainly described. Not at all. The

> The author takes pains to describe how the lossiness of MP3 encoding is audible. > Its biases are simply acknowledged and plainly described. Not at all. The author attempts to show the residue of white/pink/brown noise and of a couple of famous test clips (the ones that could be labelled as European). The author makes no attempt to compare or show that MP3 has worse artifacts on non-European music. Great job there. That's why I find the racial accusation to be out of place. I should note that I've done subtractive analysis of MP3 and Vorbis before, so I've seen the results of my test samples as well. Briefly, I found that MP3 has more tonal residue, whereas Vorbis sounds more like noise. The post-masking residue on Vorbis is stronger.