Can mp3 quality be improved?
"Chuck Finley" writes:
I bought an Escient music server several years ago when hard drive space was
still relatively expensive. Most of my music on there is encoded at 320 and
192. Reviews of DACs typically discuss how they can improve the sound of CD
quality or hi-rez music, but I'm wondering what effect they would have on
compressed music. Would some kind of up-sampling device have to be added to
the DAC for this? Thanks.
My outboard DAC improves all my digital music. It's effects on low
resolution MP3's and streaming audio is variable. It definitely adds some
'thickness' to the Internet radio I listen to, making it less objectionable.
However on particularly bad MP3 transfers it can magnify it's defects.
In sum, I would say, a decent DAC, preferably with variable filters that you
can switch in and out would be a pretty good investment if you listen to a
lot of MP3's.
Terry
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