mlsstl;411719 Wrote:
>
>
> Your comment above (which others have also stated) gives a typical
> case. As you and others have noted, I not aware of any study that
> claims 128Kbps is indistinguishable from CD, yet it is a constant
> theme. I guess it is far too convenient a straw man to give up.
>
> In the UK the Advertising Standards Authority ("ASA") exists to police
> the advertising industry and investigate complaints from the public.
> The ASA is occasionally called on to adjudicate complaints concerning
> an advertiser's claims regarding sound quality. In investigating a
> complaint against Nokia in 2007 the ASA concluded that Nokia's claim
> that 128kbs AAC equated to ""CD sound quality" was "unlikely to
> mislead". They based this conclusion on tests provided by Nokia that
> "proved that most listeners were unable to distinguish between
> compressed AAC files encoded at 128kbps and CD sound".
>
> http://www.cap.org.uk/asa/adjudications/Public/TF_ADJ_42482.htm
>
> This judgement has been widely reported (and lamented) in the UK hifi
> press.
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