[vorbis-dev] Can compressed music sound better than uncompressed?

[Robert Voigt]

On Wednesday 09 May 2001 21:10, Greg Mayer wrote:
> The idea, I think, is since certain frequencies and sounds are outside of
> the range of human hearing, then why bother carrying that information along
> in the signal when it can be suppressed with no noticeable effect on the
> outcome.  So if you get rid of that information and use the available space
> (as Lourens suggested) for higher resolution storage of the information
> that you can hear, then the sound quality can be improved.

This does not convince me. A perceptual coder cannot increase resolution of 
any portion of the original recording, it can only take what's already there 
no matter how many bits it allocates for the important information. 

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