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

Robert Voigt f1k at gmx.de
Thu May 10 00:41:49 PDT 2001



On Thursday 10 May 2001 00:19, Dirk Knop wrote:
> Sorry to make you read some "literature":

I read all that long ago ;-)

> they made audience listening tests and had some songs that sounded nicer in
> the subjective oppinion ( as average between the 10 test-listeners") of the
> testers as it has been 128 kbps mp3 than the original (!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

I remember that test at last year's Cebit. The 256kbps mp3 was more often 
perceived as the original than the original itself. The reason might be 
exactly what my quoted paragraph means. 

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