"Ruud Broens" wrote in message
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"paul packer" wrote in message
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: On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:07:26 +0200, "Ruud Broens"
: wrote:
: Here's a spin:
: Dormer delivering some rough tracks..
: Packer reducing the tracks to ever lower bitrates
: Setting: the old folks home where 'Sylvan' lives
: McKelvy doing a sideline DBT with hearing aids
: and Bob's your uncle :-)
:
: the idea being that really old folks would find the
: reduxed to the max setting the most palatable.
:
: Oh Ruud, what are you rambling on about? You really must ask the nurse
: for your meds earlier in the day. :-)

Heh, "wie vraagt, wordt overgeslagen" as the dutch saying goes.
If you have to ask, you've yet to earn your ~RAO regular badge~, Paul.
I spun some elements of past threads into a possible scenario here.
Humor aside, it _is_ about your idea that psychoacoustical research
based datareduction, as in .ogg or .mp3 files, leads to a lower cognitive
dissonance in the listener, 'easier listening'. If that's the case, it
could
be tried out in a setup as described :-)
R.

With voice, it doesn't seem that way. Even at max mpeg bitrate, it
introduced just a trace of a burble in the subject's voice. Subject was
male.