ELASTIC ROCK: CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE

Rome 1999

(ER039)

Charlemagne Palestine - piano

1. Rome 1999

Broadcast Recording

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A word about bitrates...

This issue is totally out of bound in my opinion. Everybody is doing 320 kbs now, which isn´t really necessary and simply blows up the amount of data. In reality it´s the quality of the source material and the quality of the encoding program which makes for the quality of the mp3. I have a lot of rips in 128 kbs, which I keep that way because they are absolutely sufficient. Usually I do 192 kbs, because there is a slight, but listenable improvement in quiet passages. Everything above that isn´t useful. We did tests with very (very!) good equipment. Ordinary people couldn´t even tell, which one was the mp3 with 128, and which one was the CD. Trained people can do that, but they couldn´t with mp3s in 192 kbs versus 320 kbs. Very few could tell the difference between the two in a direct source a/source b test.The issue is getting religious, as is the discussion vinyl versus CD. What´s really silly about the whole thing is the fact, that some people now blow up their old 128 kbs mp3s to 320kbs, which isn´t of any use at all.

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