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> I hear that Layer II at 256 kbps is better ( higher quality )
> than Layer III at 256 kbps. Any comments on that ?
>
If this is true, I think it can only be because layer III uses
a more agressive psy-model noise masking. With no masking and
enough bits to encode all the coefficients, they claim that
both layers are almost lossless. At 256kbs, there may
be so many bits that maybe we shouldn't be using the usual
(very aggressive) psy-model 2.
www.mp3tech.org has some very carefull listening tests done with MP3
(FhG) at 256kbs. They were done on high quality audio equipment, (not
computer sound cards). If I remember correctly, the verdict was that
no difference could be detected between MP3 256kbs and the original.
Mark
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