Venture outside of this forum and you will see statements / claims about

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Scientific Double Blind Studies have been performed that show that 128kbps AAC perceptual encoding is Indiscernible from the original CD

Personally, I take that statement with about 15 grains of salt as I'm sure do many here when it comes to playing music on their main Meridian system, i.e. that they can hear differences between Lossy and Lossless on their main system. Otherwise why all the effort and discussion about Lossless and bit-perfect ripping

Likewise, it only takes a little effort to optimise mobile listening to be able to hear differences between Lossy and Lossless. Differences are easily discernible, once you know what to listen for (as per Bob's comments on double blind testing)

If we are prepared to OPT for Lossy over Lossless, then we can hardly bemoan the Music Industry when they continue to refuse the release of High Res (24/96) and even Lossless 16/44 material

If you were a Businessman involved in the Music industry and saw that even the small percentage of people who MIGHT be interested in Lossless downloads (e.g. Meridian users) were OPTING to use Lossy material, then a logical conclusion would be "Well if that picky lot are not prepared to make the effort, then what chance that the other 99% of people will make that effort. There is obviously no business case to be made here, so let's focus on something else"


Last edited by Ronnie Hurley; 2009-09-16 09:12.
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