that won't work is you are already starting with a poor recording.
Ray T. Mahorney WA4WGA -----Original Message----- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom Kaufman Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 15:05 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: lowering bit rate in some mp3 files I don't claim to know a whole lot about "bit rate" and all..but as has already been pointed out here: lowering the bit rate (from what little I've figured out) only makes the sound worse! If it's a poor recording to start with, changing the bit rate won't improve it; if anything, to improve quality of sound, it seems to me that one would want to raise the bit rate! Tom Kaufman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray T. Mahorney" <mahorney....@googlemail.com> To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 8:37 AM Subject: RE: lowering bit rate in some mp3 files > lets go back to something else here Live Who encoded them and what were > the input levels? Lowering > either the bit rate or sampling frequency would only further degrade the > file or files. > > > Ray T. Mahorney > WA4WGA > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Joe > Paton > Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 11:03 > To: PC Audio Discussion List > Subject: Re: lowering bit rate in some mp3 files > > Adrian, > > Lowering the bit-rate wil not improve the situation. There may be a > number of reasons why you are hearing distortion, and changint the > bit-rate will not fix this. > > When you say distortion, do you mean over mudulation, or are you > hearing artifacts in the audio? > > Joe > At 20:29 06/03/2013, you wrote: >>Hi >> >>I have just got my new victor reader stream, when I play one >>or two live tracks on the stream, they sound really >>distorted because the are in a higher bit rate, would >>lowering the bit rate solve this and in what program should >>I lower the bit rate? I have easy cd converter as well as >>the latest version and sound taxi to name but a few. >> >>Adrien >> >> >> >> >>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 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
