Matthew Weigel said:

In article ,
The Artist wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...ic/3855745.stm

Sony claim their new walkman stores 3,000 more songs than the top
model iPod. To the layperson, this sounds impressive. However the hard
disc is half the size - the comparison is between ATRAC3 @ 48Kb & AAC
@ 128kbps. Using the same bit rate, the Sony actually stores half the
number of songs. Sony of course claim ATRAC3 is more efficient.

It is. Cross-codec bitrate comparisons are as informative as
cross-processor megaHertz comparisons. Listening tests must be
performed.

Proove it mr. Wiegel!
Back, then, when I invented lossles's compression in the Army my,
intention was to shove the snake oil, with tons through your throat's,
NOT!

A quick google, however, came up with a public listening test that put
ATRAC3 at the bottom, worse even than mp3 (as encoded by modern
encoders, which admittedly has been a subject of much effort):

http://www.rjamorim.com/test/multifo...sentation.html

Been there done that mr. Woggle.
This "test" is invalid as per my ABX webshiiite regulations you vinyl
and tube, biggots are all the same LoT;"s ! ;-(