[vorbis] When will quality increase be unnoticable?

[Aleksandar Dovnikovic]

"Øyvind Stegard" <oyvind.stegard at bluezone.no> wrote:

> the absolute lowest acceptable bitrate (think of how much is really
> removed: 128 reduces the data amount to 1/12th of the original size),

I think it's 1/11th of the original size.
(44100*2*2*8 / 128000 = 11.025)

> To me, quality is very important concerning music, and therefore I
> encode all my music in OGG format with an oggenc quality level of 8
> (~256kbps). Some might call me a quality freak, but this is still my
> subjective opinion, comments are very welcome. I am quite interested in
> digital audio, though I have no background developing such things, but I
> know the general principles.

No, you're not a freak, I use even bigger bitrates, around
~300-320kbps (something like -q8.6). I use RC2 Garf tuned 2 (-b350),
because, in my tests, it is still better then -q9.0 when it comes to
pre-echo, which is the only artifact you're going to encounter at bitrates
above 256kbps. The quality is great, and the filesize is still ~3 times smaller
then lossless...

<p>Aleksandar

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