Re: huh?
Originally posted by pjchappy
man. ..mp3s are compressed beyond belief. . .even the 'best' mp3s sound poopy. . .if you can't hear it, then listen to a cd on a properly set-up mid-fi stereo. . .even a cd on decent computer speakers. . .will blow away mp3s
i'm not being condescending. . .it's just that many people actually don't realize this b/c they've been listening to crap for years. . .
A LOT of info/detail/quality is lost in the compression to MP3s. . .
don't flame me. .. .just pointing stuff out. . .
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Not going to Flame, but I will point out that you are wrong about the 'best' mp3's sounding bad.
Mp3's are compressed but that does not mean that they will sound worse.
Just a little run down on how things work. A 128kbs mp3 is pretty much crap. It's about the same as listening to something on a FM radio station.
192kbs is becomming the new standard, and sounds just like the original CD when played on low end speakers. But on high end you still hear artifacts.
256kbs is Studio quality. Even if you played this on high end speakers you would probably have a hard time telling the difference between the CD and the mp3.
The problem is that most people don't encode correctly. They rip at high speed, and they dont even use the correct mp3 settings when they encode. I mean most people don't even know what codec they are using when they encode! To produce a good Mp3, you should rip it with EAC (
www.exactaudiocopy.de) and encode with Lame. Fhg does not sound as good as Lame at high freq.
How are they going to produce high quality music when they don't know what they are doing. A well ripped Mp3 will sound just as good as the original CD on good speakers as long as your rip and encode it correctly. If you just rip, click, and encode, you are going to get a mp3 that does not sound as good as the origianl.