Bob Cain wrote:

To what does the "Absolute" in "Absolute Threshold of Hearing" refer?

Not much any more. It is continuously adapted to the
current "loudness" so has become rather an oxymoron.

If the ATH does not use Full Scale as its point of reference what else
does it use?

For a sketch of the thrashing that has occured in Lame development
relative to this rather crucial issue see:

http://ee1.bradley.edu/~jodaman/dev/mp3/lame.html

OK, lemme click Send first.

I suggest again that you subscribe to the mp3encoder mailing
list where you can pose your questions to those who know
exactly what goes on and how your modifications will affect
the encoding process. You can subscribe at:

http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder

Your phrase "I suggest again" will undoubtedly be interpreted by others
in this group as "I suggested before and you have apparently ignored my
suggestion". However, this is your first post to this thread in this
newsgroup and I have not been checking in with the other thread in the
other newsgroup very much lately so this is the first I've heard of it
from you.

This would seem to be a very fine place to go for further information.
I can take my list of conclusions posted earlier here to over there and
see what they have to say about it.

Myke

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