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Re:What Data Compression Does to Music (2012) by rplst8 on Friday January 04, 2019 @11:20PM (#18829892)
If you don't think there is a huge difference between 140 and 150db then you don't understand decibels.

I can most certainly tell the difference between 320kbps lossy and red book audio on well done recordings.

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Re:What Data Compression Does to Music (2012) by Retric on Saturday January 05, 2019 @01:10AM (#18830255)
The problem is people’s hearing range shrinks so much at low dB as to include it in ‘hearing range’ is meaningless. Similarly, people can detect pain at 140db, but they don’t differentiate sounds.

Ex at 60db detecting 100hz sounds is easy, at 20db it’s outside of human hearing range.

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