I'd not set the min quality for as low as posible because that's too low.
i'd set maybe 128 as your lowest point, and then whatever you want as your
highest point. If you can't hear above 192, and won't be shairng the files,
then maybe set it to 192.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dane Trethowan" <grtd...@internode.on.net>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users?
Well really this is a very strange questions, I've been wearing digital
hearing aids for 15 years and I'n now asking myself, why should encoding
of sound be any different to those wearing hearing aids than for those who
are not? By that I mean you encode the way you want and the way you like
but one thing I do know when wearing good hearing instruments is that you
want the best quality sound you can get. An audio engineer once
recommended me use VBR quality and I did post instructions on how to set
this up with LAME and what all the settings meant quite some time ago so
I'm sure you'll find it if you look in the archives. Basically what you
need to do is set the minimum bit rate to as low as possible and the
maximum bit rate to as high as possible. There are 2 quality bit rates,
the VBR bit rate will need to be changed according to what you're encoding
but a good setting for music is "3", the lower the number then the less
the encoder rejects from the encoding. If you set the VBR quality to "1"
then you may as well use a lossless compression such as FLAC. Use Joint
stereo.
Of course I'm referring to MP3 encoding with LAME here.
On 19/08/2010, at 3:03 AM, chris hallsworth wrote:
Hello all,
I have been equipped with two very powerful digital hearing aids
literally today. I'm wondering what is the best in terms of audio
quality. By that I mean things like 44,100HZ 16 bit or 128KBPS.
Many thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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