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Old April 7th 17, 10:17 AM posted to uk.rec.audio
Phil Allison[_3_]
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Default Radio 3 flac tests

Don Pearce wrote:


A problem here is that lossy compression is really based on the kind
of dynamic range you get in uncompressed acoustic music, and it does
that quite well.


** The missing fact being that wide range material has a low average bit rate.


Hypercompressed pop is much harder to compress



** Cos it resembles random noise at a high level - hence a high average bit rate.


while keeping decent sound quality.



** That is not easy to believe.



..... Phil