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Re:24/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (2012) by xiphmont on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @02:12AM (#15130023)
> he says he could tell the difference between high bitrate mp3 and 16 bit 44k wav.

In the early days, when all mp3 encoders were pretty bad, I could tell which encoder produced a given file. mp3 encoders today are vastly better. I've not been able to do that party trick in a long time.

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Re:24/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (2012) by cellularmitosis on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @03:26AM (#15130280)
I remember the Xing encoder was blazing lay fast, but sounded worse than LAME. This was around 1999, IRRC.
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Re:24/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (2012) by philjohn on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @04:43AM (#15130615)
Yep, especially bad on cymbals - always a dead giveaway.
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Re:24/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (2012) by 72deluxe on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @05:22AM (#15130769)
Yes and hihats. But how am I to tell now that I have high frequency tinnitus?? Blasted drummers.
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Re:24/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (2012) by bitwize on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @07:49AM (#15131316)
And whenever someone said an 's'. It sounded like 'sshssh'
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Re:24/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (2012) by em3rgent0rdr on Friday September 01, 2017 @05:27PM (#15152507)
thank you for clarifying! It seems I slightly misrepresented your views...for that I'm sorry...I was going on memory of what I remember you saying.
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