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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi again,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was just looking at reviews on vorbis and reading
some listening test results when I came across several web sites that were
saying something about Vorbis quality</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-2. From what I read a few programs have Vorbis
going down to quality -2 and I even think hydrogen audio forums mentions it in a
speech compression topic. Does this quality really exist and has anyone
even heard of it? I doubt it's in the standard, but then again it just might be.
Has anyone heard of it or even so much as tested it at some point? Does this
quality -2 setting sound better at 32KBPS or any low bitrate than its quality -1
alternatives? All I know at this point is that some software developers have
implemented it, and that according to hydrogen audio forums topic on speech
compression quality -2 gave 32KBPS stereo on 44.1KHZ files and 16KBPS mono at
the same sampling rate. I actually don't think I believe those bitrates to be
true, perhaps 40KBPS stereo and 28KBPS mono. I am very curious about this. Any
info worth knowing?</FONT></DIV>
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