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In article <77jcvs$9lk$1@birch.prod.itd.earthlink.net>,
John Busenitz <busenitz@earthlink.net> wrote:
>"Supposed to" and "does" are two very different things. MP3 sometimes
>gets close, maybe even occasionally indistinguishable, but but it
>is not a completely transparent codec. There is a lot of proof of this,
>the JAES article on this very topic is one.
Indeed, on the other hand, how does this justify the claim below:

>It doesn't matter. It CANNOT have any more information than was on
>the CD-audio signal from which it was recorded. At BEST, it can sound
>the same.
OK so far.

>Most likely it exhibits audible coloration, ranging from
>barely audibly to annoying.

At what Bit Rate, John? THAT matters. 128kb/s is pushing it for 
Mpeg-2 Layer 3. It's NOT pushing it for MPEG-2 AAC, and even 192 kb/s
is pushing it for MPEG-1/2 Layer 2.

It all depends on bit rate and coder.

At 256 kb/s/stereo pair, MP3 is REAL good.
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