CD Quality
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Printed Date: May 14, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Topic: CD Quality
Posted By: KrazyLoCo
Subject: CD Quality
Date Posted: July 03, 2004 at 12:17 AM
Hi, I installed a new Pioneer DEH-2600. My burnt CDs sound worse than the radio. Is this normal? I mean the radio has deeper/longer bass and bassy/any songs on CDs just thump and sound like paper. The songs were burnt from 128kbps MP3s... any input? Thank you.
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Posted By: colaroaster
Date Posted: July 03, 2004 at 10:04 AM
i burn alot of cd's and the mp3's sound quality always seems to lose alot of its fullness, bass sounds flat, highs aren't very bright, etc.. i think when you compress a music file that small, is were the sound quality is lost. regardless of burning speed. and i've burnt 100's of concerts from mp3, shn.files, flac files, bit torrents, and mp3s sound like popo. IMO
Posted By: kfr01
Date Posted: July 03, 2004 at 10:11 AM
128kbps mp3s are horrible. Nothing you can do about it. Encode at a MUCH higher bitrate 200+vbr or 320 with a quality codec and you'll start gaining some of that quality back. Even then mp3 is a lossy format - it will never be as good as cd quality.
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Posted By: kfr01
Date Posted: July 03, 2004 at 10:16 AM
I like ubershare.com's encoding standard options: Encoding Standard- MP3s MUST be encoded with any of: Other MP3 encoders or other versions of LAME MUST NOT be used. The MP3s MUST be encoded with any of the following command lines:
- "--alt-preset standard" (~200kbps, called APS),
- "--alt-preset extreme" (~260kbps, called APX) or
- "--alt-preset insane" (=320kbps, called API, not really worth it).
These are much better than normal VBR modes, specially optimised in the program code and much higher quality than the ancient --r3mix settings, which MUST NOT be used. - Alternatively, the free, technically superior (but less universally supported and less seasoned) Ogg Vorbis lossy audio codec MAY be used (Xiph.org libvorbis 1.0 20020717 or the later, recommended version, Xiph.org libvorbis 1.0.1 20030909, using quality (-q) 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 (Q6, Q7, Q8, Q9, Q10 respectively). (Development and testing versions of Vorbis MUST NOT be used.)
- Alternatively, the FLAC lossless compression format using the "--best" option MAY be used (version 1.1.0 recommended, quality tag FLAC). FLAC gives absolutely perfect quality, but big files (think around 300-400MB per CD, 4 times the size of an APX rip). But it is ideal for those who want to transcode to other formats for their portable, say, those who want to burn CD-DA, or those who desire a perfect archive copy.
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