[jwvm]

On Sep 27, 4:05=A0pm, Audio Empire wrote:
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 04:00:45 -0700, Romy the Cat wrote
(in article ):

What I found the most amassing in this story is that presentation was
made for Audio Engineering Society and it looks like they were
AMAZED!!!

I think that they were amazed by the sound of the difference signal betwe=
en
the unaltered master and the compressed copy. It was that so much
"extraneous" info was removed from the master that it was apparently poss=
ible
to still tell what the music was supposed to be and who was singing it. =
=A0
That's a lot of loss.

There should be no surprise regarding what has been discarded in
perceptual coding. By definition, what is thrown away is information
that is masked and so will not be perceived. This residual should
contain recognizable sounds and be highly correlated with the original
recording.