SoftwireEngineer wrote: > Why not ? This is what wikepedia says about mp3 - "The compression works > by reducing accuracy of certain parts of sound that are considered to be > beyond the auditory resolution ability of most people. This method is > commonly referred to as perceptual coding.[13] It uses psychoacoustic > models to discard or reduce precision of components less audible to > human hearing, and then records the remaining information in an > efficient manner." > > If you cannot hear the effects of jitter, probably you will not any > difference between mp3 and wav or any high resolution format.
Why not? You answered this yourself: "considered to be beyond the auditory resolution ability of most people." Jitter, at the levels being discussed, is beyond the auditory resolution ability of ALL people, even golden eared audio gurus, regardless of what they claim. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96407 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles