pippin wrote: > No, it's a misunderstanding. Spotify DOES have a feature to normalize > volume across tracks and it DOES do additional dynamics compression > degrading the dynamics of your track. > Yeah, I know, but the feature has nothing to do lossy audio encoding. Remember we were not just talking about Spotify but also about WiMP and such.
> > Also, it's not true that mp3 at high bitrates and with good encoding > sounds the same as lossless. This is usually true if you have normal or > good hearing but if your hearing is impaired it does no longer hold. mp3 > (actually all of the lossy codecs) work by removing lower frequencies > that are masked out by higher frequencies by our ear (or more precisely: > by the audio compression our ear seems to do when transmitting the > signal to the brain). They do NOT restore these frequencies when > decoding the music. > Your claim that somebody with impaired hearing is better able to identify artifacts in lossy audio is highly unorthodox. Can you provide evidence? Common sense suggests just the opposite: the better your hearing, the more likely to hear artifacts introduced by MP3. Think of it this way: somebody on the side of the road is humming. There's noise from cars driving by. The cars may mask the humming. But the better your hearing, the more likely you can still hear the humming against the car noise. There's one more thing you got backwards. An encoder may start by low-pass filtering the input signal. This would discard high frequency content, not low frequency content. When you hearing deteriorates, what typically happens is that your ability to hear high frequencies is impaired the most. This again contradicts your argument that people with poor hearing are more likely to successfully discriminate between lossy and lossless. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dafiend's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=60637 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102351 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
