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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi, my name is Raymond and I'm new to this list.
While I think Vorbis sounds good with its "quality" settings, I have a few
problems when I set the format to constrain the bitrate so it doesn't go any
higher than 128KBPS, for example. This problem only occurs with stereo files,
not mono. Let's say I set the format to use bitrates up to 45KBPS. Well, the
low-pass filter has this problem, the closer the volume gets to 0DB, the lower
the cutoff, by 0DB I think it's around 4KHZ cutoff but when the volume gets
quiet it sounds like the cutoff is where it should be. The higher I let the
bitrate go, the less the lowpass filter acts up, by 80KBPS I can't hear anything
wrong with it. On the "dare to compare" section of the vorbis site I heard none
of these low-pass problems. I'm guessing that the codec got installed
automatically with the program I'm using and it was a beta version, or it was
corrupted? The company said another customer reported the same problem. Maybe I
can just re-download the codec and install it somewhere, but I'd have to know
where to put it since I do not want to go replacing files without knowing what
I'm doing first. Or isn't it that simple? As you can tell I'm kind of
confused...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any advice would be greatly
appreciated.</FONT></DIV>
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