[vorbis] When will quality increase be unnoticable?

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yvind Stegard <oyvind.stegard at bluezone.no> wrote:
: 
: 1. I agree that improving quality makes it possible to reduce data 
: amount even more, but I think only up to a certain point.. The original 
: audio is lost no matter what, and to a great extent at low bitrates.How 
: can mathematics really guess/calculate the original sound that well, in 
: the end, with so little to work with ? Perhaps much can be 
: reconstructed, but I think that there must be a limit on how much you 
: are able to get back, somewhere, when the bitrate gets really low(a 
: philosophical thought perhaps)... I admit though, that one should be 
: careful predicting how technology will develop.

Your psychological connection between size and quality is a problem. A
FLAC file 65% of the size of a WAV file is still lossless, for example.


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