[vorbis-dev] Can compressed music sound better thanuncompressed?

[Moritz Grimm]

Hi,

just an opinion: Personally, I like the philosophy of Hi-Fi. This means,
that compressed sound should sound as much like the original as
possible, and not any different. Bad input HAS to produce bad output
(same with good input, of course), sound may not be altered. This keeps
the sound from being literally killed by the codec, one of the great
advantages OGG has compared to MP3 ... liveliness and dynamics are
reproduced very good by OGG, imo, and I'd never want this to be
different (to me, MP3 sounds dead ... good for some electronic genres
maybe, but definitely not something that should be there by default).
People with poor equipment can still use some multiband compression DSP
plugins in Winamp, if they wish.

... and as someone who makes music I really don't want my sound to be
altered. If I make some mistakes everybody who knows what details to
listen to should be able to tell me that I made some bullshit on the
technical side. This is important for me, 'cause naturally I want to be
able to learn from my mistakes and the feedback I get.

Moritz

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