The future of audio compression?
On Mar 13, 2:18*pm, Eli the Bearded wrote:
In comp.compression, Scott Dorsey wrote:
Ben Bradley wrote:
* *There's a recent story on Slashdut. A professor has done tests of
college students with MP3 of various bitrates vs. uncompressed audio,
and most students nowadays PREFER the 128k MP3 sound:
Of course, because this is what they are used to listening to.
I don't think that's self-evident. People have been upgrading to audio
formats for how long? And in many cases it was because a lot of people
thought the new format sounded better.
And in many cases, it wasn't. It was because
the new media provided for convenience, or
reduced price, or because some media moguls
decided that there future revenues lay in the
direction of forcing people to scrap their current
format and replace it with a new one, etc..
not everyone has the tastes of an audio engineer
Not everyone has taste.
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