[vorbis] quality question?

[John Morton]

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:42, Gerhard Thomas Kriz wrote:
> Actually I have been doing a very subjective test yesterday,
> encoding a wav (Dub Syndicate: "Creation") I am very familiar with
> and I think of being a bit demanding (Dub Syndicate: "Creation") to
> oggs, using q4 up to q8 and q10. After comparing the sound (=
> listening very carefully)I was decoding those files to wav again and
> analyzed them (I was using WinVorbis 1.35 for encoding and
> OggDropPXd for decoding).
> Personally I found that q4 up to q7 was altering the sound too much;
> q8 came very close to the original. I didn't listen to q10, because
> those kbps are far too much for my purpose.

Consider giving one of the windows ABX tools a go. Your ears will play tricks 
on you, and you may find that you can't reliably differentiate at a lower 
quality rate than you think. 

John

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