[vorbis] Ogg too good?

[Wilson]

q1 sounds like someone wrapped a sock around my head.
To be fair, I just encoded a test track at q1, and compared it to the
original WAV.
In the WAV, I can easily hear hands sliding on cello strings.. In a q1 Ogg,
those come across as a hissing sound. The bass frequencies sound crumbly.
What's worse is that this is a relatively forgiving test track. Not very
complicated.
To be sure, the output is very impressive for an average bitrate of 80kbps.
I'd be happy to listen to a stream that sounded this good.
I usually use q7, myself.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Dooley" <colin at artlum.com>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 10:05 PM
Subject: [vorbis] Ogg too good?

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> I'm just encoding some files with the latest ogg and it's
> too good. I tried encoding things at q1 just to see what
> happened and I couldn't hear the differencee between the
> ogg and the original files.
>
> Maybe it was the type of music I was encoding or limitations
> in my listening equipment or something but it seems pointless
> to have a scale from one to ten and have most of it unused.
> Seriously... this is a real problem. What if I *want* mediocre
> quality, eg. for downloads where I don't want people to have
> the full quality version of a song?
>
> Also, I think MP3 people will feel cheated if they never need
> use a higher quality level than two or three.
>
> So please, please, let's have worse quality. It's psychological
> and maybe silly, but I think q1 should sound a *little* bit bad.
>
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