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Default Question: Is "128" Totally Irrelevant As A Bitrate?

On Nov 5, 8:36*am, "Peter Larsen" wrote:
ChrisCoaster wrote:
Seriously!
Aside from 1/2hour episodes of "The Shadow" or "Great Gildersleeve"
radio shows, is the greatest thing to happen in the 1990s totally
passe?
My personal mp3 download minimum is 192kbps. *For rips - 256 if it's
poppy stuff, 320 for jazz, classical, and stuff I just can't live
without. *


192 with joint stereo (ms) is where acceptable starts, and gets better if
you start out with a quality sample rate conversion to 32 kHz sample rate..
Makes life easier for the encoder and thus the treble less splatty.

However you WILL end up doing it all in full wordlength, so why bother with
wordlenght-reduction?

-ChrisCoaster


* Kind regards

* Peter Larsen

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I still see 128s out there and can really hear the difference between
one of a song and a 192bit of that same song. I have a harder time
hearing the diference going from 192 to 256kb and up though as i've
lost me top!


-CC