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

[Robert Voigt]

On Friday 11 May 2001 17:10, David Balazic wrote:
> How does it degrade ?
> Is the level of degradation noticable or even measurable ?

It doesn't say more about this. 

> > In short, a
> >    perceptual coder more properly codes an audio signal for passage
> > through an audio system."
>
> He doesn't say that any audio quality improvement should or does happen.
> Maybe it only reduces the power consumption of the amplifier , now that
> sounds logical ( less audio, less energy , less power )

Good idea, the power consumption. Any higher quality amp shouldn't have 
problems delivering enough power, but a lot of compressed music is reproduced 
with low quality amps, and they may have problems here.

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