[vorbis] Is Vorbis prone to clipping?

[Paul Martin]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:23:48AM -0500, Graham Mitchell wrote:

> As Andrew already mentioned, of course the real problem (IMO) is that studios 
> compress the crap out of everything and then jack it up so the average volume 
> is as high as possible.  Which means an error of 1 dB in the encoder could 
> make something clip that didn't before.

Worse than that, the studios put a clipped signal on the CD.

http://www.personal.uni-jena.de/~pfk/mpp/clipping.html
http://rvcc2.raritanval.edu/ktek9053/cdpage/


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