On 28/04/2014 20:31, tony sayer wrote:
In article , R. Mark Clayton
Ditto - originally I thought MP3's were inferior [to CD] because they were
not lossless compression (like zip), however for most purposes you really
can't hear the difference.

Quite suitable for personal audio players and the like but needs to be
getting on for 320 K/bits for good audio..

128k is about equivalent to compact cassette, IME.

PS typical digital audio streams are 44 - 48k samples per second.

*Samples* per second, not bits per second. 44k *bits* per second is low
fidelity mp3 or any other lossy compression well down into distorted
telephone quality speech territory. 44k *samples* per second at 16 bits
per sample is CD quality.

Yes don't we just DABbing well know it;!..

Shouldn't have let the accountants determine the quality.

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Tciao for Now!

John.