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Re: Apple ][ Boogie - mp3 music online



Sean Fahey <a2fan@hotmail.com> wrote:

> "Mike" <abc@def.ghi> wrote in message
> news:abc-79F65A.13193818012005@28-74.newscene.com...
> 
> > While I appreciate the effort, I have to wonder - why even bother with
> > 128k MP3s?  They should be at least 192, and preferably 256k.
> 
> Since they were sampled from tape, why bother going over 128? Isn't CD
> quality for most people at around 160? This isn't a troll, I'm just curious
> why you feel they should have been sampled higher - I am not an audio
> engineer.

_most_ people can't tell the diff between CD and 128K... my hearing's
not quite 20-20* but I'm one of the unfortunate few who can actually
hear a substantial difference between CD and even high quality mp3s...
(and I'm 37 and have played in some rather loud rock bands!) To me, 128K
sounds very close to a commercially duped tape; 192K sounds like a good
homemade tape and 256K sounds close, but not quite CD quality. That
being said, I regularly encode my sample mp3s at 48K just to keep the
files small, which sounds very much like good shortwave reception.
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