Like a few others, this post inspired me to do my own test...
I ran a comparison with four songs ("Black Crow," "Corner of the Earth," "Love Foolosophy," and "Little L," all by Jamiroquai) with low, heavy bass and crisp high-ends, plus everything in between. I compared each song at 128kbps OGG and MP3, and then with the WAV.
A lot of times, I could hear faults in the high-ends on the MP3. I heard 'em on the OGGs, too, but they weren't as bad, nor as common. The MP3's tended to distort the bass a lot more (though not much, still notable) than the OGGs. The OGGs were an average of 20KB bigger, but that's a small price to pay for better audio quality.
Naturally, the WAVs pulled both formats into a dark corner and beat the living hell outta 'em, but WAVs are big.
Result: OGG VORBIS!!!
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Like a few others, this post inspired me to do my own test ...
I ran a comparison with four songs ("Black Crow," "Corner of the Earth," "Love Foolosophy," and "Little L," all by Jamiroquai) with low, heavy bass and crisp high-ends, plus everything in between. I compared each song at 128kbps OGG and MP3, and then with the WAV.
A lot of times, I could hear faults in the high-ends on the MP3. I heard 'em on the OGGs, too, but they weren't as bad, nor as common. The MP3's tended to distort the bass a lot more (though not much, still notable) than the OGGs. The OGGs were an average of 20KB bigger, but that's a small price to pay for better audio quality.
Naturally, the WAVs pulled both formats into a dark corner and beat the living hell outta 'em, but WAVs are big.
Result: OGG VORBIS!!!