opaqueice;397689 Wrote: > Hi Phil, > > thanks for posting these very interesting results! I await the results > of the TacT test eagerly. > > About MP3 and the Requiem - that's actually not surprising. I'll bet > if you compare the size of a FLAC version of the Requiem to WAV, you'll > find it's not as much smaller as the FLAC version of some of the other > tracks you've been listening to are (compared to WAV). Point being, > complex music is much harder to compress than simpler music. Pure solo > instruments, contrary to audiophile belief, are very easy to compress. > Complex orchestral and choral works are not. > > So it's not surprising the MP3 algorithm is having difficulty > compressing the Requiem without losing important information, because > it basically has to be much more lossy (compared to FLAC) to achieve > the same file size than it would for simpler music.
hmmm Sanctus WAV=30MB, FLAC=11MB, 245VBR MP3= 3 MB ... (TACT test coming soon) -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB3 (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Outdoors: Boom ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60041 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
