Ignore that, the whole purpose of VBR is to encode every sample at a bit rate, you don't want encoding of say silent samples done at 128k as that's just wasting band width.
On 19/08/2010, at 11:47 PM, richard claypool wrote: > 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. > > msn > bellevue....@gmail.com > skype > lord_of_beer > last fm > http://last.fm/lord_of_beer > > ----- 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. >>> >>> -- >>> Sent using Thunderbird >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org >> >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
