Please suggest uncompressed samples I can compress then compare Options

[edmundf]

Hi Guys,

I am new here and I like to do a comparison between uncompressed music and MP3 192kbps.
There is no doubt in my mind that you experts have some suitable samples for me, I mean suitable so that one actually can hear the difference. I do have a decent stereo set and I can convert uncompressed wav files to MP3.
So are there any such files floating around here?

Thanks

Edmund

[IgorC]

Speaking shortly there are different groups of samples. The most important are two first.
1. Transients - pre-echo issues (castanets, electronic, rock)
2. Tonal (classic instruments: harpsichord, trumpets etc).
3. Speech, stereo separation, quite/loud etc.
And the combinations of these groups.

[mzil]

Speaking shortly there are different groups of samples. The most important are two first.
1. Transients - pre-echo issues (castanets, electronic, rock)
2. Tonal (classic instruments: harpsichord, trumpets etc).
3. Speech, stereo separation, quite/loud etc.
And the combinations of these groups.

What's the technical term for the distorion I hear I can only describe as "swirly", everyone? Listening to audience applause it would sound like the phase was being modulated slightly, once or twice per second, I'd say.

I hear it on sat. radio stations, at times, and was first exposed to it on the opening of Pearl Jam's "Daughter" (when encoded at too low a rate), a "codec killer" track recommended by David Ranada of then "Stereo Review/ Sound and Vision" magazine.

This post has been edited by mzil: Jun 15 2012, 17:58