"Serge Auckland" wrote


When MP3 perceptual codecs first became popular, I made up a couple of CDs
each with the same track firstly as a straight copy off a commercial CD,
then MP2 and MP3 encoded at different bit rates, some joint stereo, some
true stereo. I was surprised at how good they all actually were, down to
96kbps even MP2. My experience was that doing an AB comparison with the
original, it was fairly clear which was which up to something like (it was
some time ago, and I no longer have my notes) 192kbps MP2 and 128k MP3,
but after that, it became increasingly difficult to tell.



When storage was expensive and relatively hard to come by, I digitised to
128K as the best compromise and I had a player at the time ('MP3Man', IIRC)
that didn't seem to like anything better, in any case!

Nowadays I digitise to 256K because it sounds plenty good enough to me, even
over a 'full-size hifi system' and if 192K is good enough for firms like
Denon:

http://www.denon.co.uk/site/frames_m...detail&Pid=406


Then it (or a little 'better' than 192K) is good enough for me!