[vorbis-dev] MP3pro

[Jama Poulsen]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:05:17AM -0500, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> I'm also curious: I've seen others on the list say that Ogg/Vorbis' sound
> quality is "better" than MP3.  Can this be quantified (or is this already
> on a web page somewhere)?

A Russian guy has done some interesting quality tests with
MPEG-1 Layer III, WMA and Ogg Vorbis codec implementations:

http://websound.ru/docs/review/expres_e.htm

>  I kinda guess that "128kbps/MP3 quality in
> 64kbps" is marketing drivel, but such comparisons would be helpful for
> those of us who don't understand acoustics, etc.  :-)

Not that I understand acoustics all that well, but maybe
you're also interested in some sound theory links:

http://www.helsinki.fi/~ssyreeni/dsound/dsound
http://www.arts.uci.edu/dobrian/digitalaudio.htm
http://www.gprep.org/~music/musikbok/chap5.html
http://www.anu.edu.au/ITA/ACAT/drw/PPofM/INDEX.html


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