Lossless audio - is it really that important? - Yes it is!

[Deciazulado]

Originally Posted by stevei

You have to be a little careful with these things, though - I once encoded a pro logic matrixed stereo file at 128kbps and it sounded TERRIBLE. At 192kbps it was fine, and I could have easily assumed the difference was due to the bitrate. However, a more detailed investigation revealed that the codec was configured to use joint stereo at 128 and stereo at 192. Switching it to use stereo instead of joint stereo at 128 made the problem go away at 128.

You think I don't know what I'm doing? I know what you're doing.


btw I was listening to The Beatles in surround before they ended