magiccarpetride;687901 Wrote: > Another audio myth: red book CDs somehow better sounding than 128 kbps > mp3. Where's the evidence to support such outlandish claims?
http://www.mediatechnics.com/cdaudio.htm http://www.uaudio.com/blog/understanding-audio-data-compression/ If one were to compare based on the data rate alone, CD beats mp3 as it has a data rate of 141 kbps vs 128 k for the mp3. But the most important limitation of mp3 is that it is a data reduction format that permanently throws music information away so the information is simply not there to be heard. CD has all of the music information on the disc that the producer cares to put there (subject to the limitations of the format, which again are much less limiting than mp3). -- musicom ------------------------------------------------------------------------ musicom's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30459 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92918 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
