[vorbis] When will quality increase be unnoticable?

[Aleksandar Dovnikovic]

"Luke Usherwood" <Luke.Usherwood at clear.net.nz> wrote:

> Here's a small tale of my experience with MP3.   I started out encoding at
> 128kbps (that must have  been, what, 7 years ago.  Man, I'm getting old!).  I
> would listen to all my music, and if I was able to hear a problem, I'd re-rip
> my CD at 256.  I ended up re-ripping about 10% of my music back
> then.  Over the next couple of years, I did, as you say "grow goldern ears".
> I could no longer bare to listen to many of the songs originally recorded at
> 128kbit.  They sounded aweful.

Xing sucks even at bitrates like 256 or 320 kbps (VBR or CBR, it doesn't
matter). Lots of pre-echo and high frequencies (>16kHz) are totally
screwed up... yuck. Some thing goes for Blade.

<p>Aleksandar

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