RE: [MP3 ENCODER] offtopic, decoder comparisons ... possible AE4 bug

2000-05-13 Thread francois
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Re: [MP3 ENCODER] offtopic, decoder comparisons ... possible AE4 bug

2000-05-13 Thread Zia Mazhar
> How can they say 'sounds better' if you almost get a to-the-bit equal audio > stream as with another decoder? Well, the fact is Sonique "colours" the music. The output of Sonique is different from the original sound. But that does not always mean that it will sound worse to the ears. If you us

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] offtopic, decoder comparisons ... possible AE4 bug

2000-05-13 Thread vdbj
Hello John, JC> Many people have sworn sonique sounds best. I'm guilty too. But if two JC> other decoders agree and sonique disagrees, what does that mean... ? I re-installed sonique 1.30 after a (very) brief period of 1.50-1.51. I don't understand this. How can they say 'sounds better' if you

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] offtopic, decoder comparisons ... possible AE4 bug

2000-05-12 Thread Gabriel Bouvigne
> Many people have sworn sonique sounds best. I'm guilty too. But if two > other decoders agree and sonique disagrees, what does that mean... ? > > John Beeing the best sounding does not means beeing the most mp3 compliant. Perhaps some extra tricks can be done for improving the sound quality, b

[MP3 ENCODER] offtopic, decoder comparisons ... possible AE4 bug

2000-05-12 Thread John Coiner
Hi folks, A little offtopic, but somebody might be interested... I repeated the decoder test done by Matthew Lloyd in his post last month. I compared Sonique 1.51, Winamp using the mpg123 plugin, and Winamp using the fraunhofer plugin (aka winamp 2.22) This test involves comparing the right cha