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Listening Comparisons For Audio Codecs At 64kbps

Posted by simoniker on from the passing-the-audio-taste-test dept.

waaka! writes "Hydrogenaudio has just wrapped up a listening test of various audio codecs at 64kbps. Check out the results, where Ogg Vorbis performed quite well, scoring significantly better than WMA, RealAudio and QuickTime AAC, and kept pace with MP3Pro and HE-AAC (AAC with the SBR extensions that MP3Pro uses). Clearly, though, no codec can honestly claim 128 kbps MP3 quality at 64 kbps. The charts at the end show entries for 128kbps LAME MP3 and 64kbps FhG MP3, but these are used as high and low anchors for reference, as MP3 is really out of its league at bitrates such as these."

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  1. But how... by Atario · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...to compensate for everyone's crappy $1.99 computer speakers?

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  2. Re:Before anybody says.. by Capt'n+Hector · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's what the 40 gig iPod is for.

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  3. Re:My music days are over by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You were probably almost fired for listening to such a shitty band, not for sharing MP3s.

  4. To paraphrase Gates by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nobody will ever need less than 64kbps of audio.