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Unintended Aural Consequences of MP3 Compression

Posted by chrisd on from the lossy-compression-obsoletes-itself dept.

zenst writes "A rather interesting read about possible damage to your hearing due to the way most audio compression techneques work. They mainly work by presenting a signal that the brain perceives to be the same as the original and it is this assumption that could effect our hearing and the way we hear."

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  1. Racist by DonniKatz · · Score: 0, Troll

    "White science likes to call such methods gladly playing down "psychoacoustic", " black science is like, damn yo, i don't care 'bout none o dat shiot

  2. iF this wuR Tru than IRC and texhTing. . . by kfg · · Score: 1, Troll

    uazAge wUd bee RewenIng peep's abIlatY tw0 uZZ the LagNguaGGe as WeL aadN yU donut see TAHT! do yU????!!!!!!?????

    KFG

  3. Re:Oh thats what it is... by antistuff · · Score: 0, Troll

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    come by some day i fucking dare you

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  4. Re:Arrgh! My Eyes! by Per+Wigren · · Score: 0, Troll

    Thinking about it, a few years ago I'd say that most JPEG pictures with 50% quality had perfect picturequality.. That they had no glitches at all.. However, I've learned to see the artifacts caused by JPEG compression now, and I can tell if it is a JPEG or not, up to at least 75%.. Same goes for MP3.. Files that I thought had perfect CD-quality just a few years ago sound like crap now, using the same equipment to play it.. I guess my brain has learned to recognize MP3-artifacts, so I can hear them on 90% of all 128kbps-files..
    Today I can't tell a -q1.5 (~80kbps on average) OGG/Vorbis-file from the original CD most of the time, but I guess that a few years from now they will be almost unlistenable..
    Ok, this isn't really what the guy was talking about, but it's still pretty interesting..

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