On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Lorenzo Sutton <lsutton(a)libero.it> wrote:
It has always struck me how well you can tell
compressed files by listening
to applause (especially the kind of applause you get at a talk or classical
music concert).
My personal experience is that classical and electroacoustic music are much
more susceptible to compression artefacts than 'mainstream' music.
Lorenzo.
Cymbals---these sound horrible in mp3 encodings. It should be fairly
predictable that wide-band sounds have worse encodings. It takes more
frequency content and hence higher bitrate to represent these sounds.