"Lord Hasenpfeffer" wrote in message

My concern with creating better MP3s from louder WAVs lies not with
frequency masking but with filtration based upon what it known as the
Absolute Threshold of Hearing.

For the benefit of those not following the r.a.p thread. The (now) famous
"Absolute Threshold Of Hearing" relates to signals at extremely low levels
that are disgarded in MP3 and ATRAC coding. Not levels like -1dB, or -10dB,
or -20dB, but in the order of -60dB and lower.

geoff