Michael Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>there is near zero difference when listening at any real
>>volume at all.
>
>I'm still trying to get my head around this. If there are audible
>artefacts associated with ATRAC, how come they show up at low
>volumes, but all but vanish at high volumes? This seems pretty
>counter-intuitive.
While I disagree with the previous poster that "there is near zero
difference when listening at any real volume," he's correct to some
extent that differences are often more "muted" the louder the volume. The
human ear becomes less sensitive the louder the surrounding environment.
You can easily hear a whisper in a quiet room, or even in a room with a
bunch of people talking softly, but in a noisy room you can't at all. Not
the best analogy, but similar -- if the artifacts of ATRAC compression
are subtle, you may be able to hear them at low volumes but as the music
gets louder it masks them.
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