I know the first thing that will be said "Why". "Your hearing can not be that good"..... My imagineation or not I seem to be able to hear a differance when I burn a Cd and play it on my Stereo Equipment. To make matters worse I've been comparing wavforms on Cooledit and now visualy see the differance. This has now added to my comfort or discomfort level.

From a previous thread I now understand that --braindead is a more accurate switch than --insane. I was encoding --insane --nmt 12 --tmn 32. I tried encoding with --braindead and for so reason it does not sound as good on my equipment. My question is...Is there a way to get the full spectrum out of --braindead.
Sorry everyone I know you all are getting tired of this sort of question, but I am tring to get my best. I've tried all the Lossy formats along with lossless and decided on the versitilty of MPC and love it so help me get my best. "My imagination or not"
Thanks

I think when you add --minSMR 3 to the braindead commandline you'll encode the same spectrum as the insane profile

command line : --braindead --minSMR 3

I'm not sure though just you giving a hint. But this will also increase the bitrate quite heavily.

Do yourself a favour and ABX if you can hear a difference or not.

Agreed. --braindead uses a very, very sensitive ATH curve (way overboard, which is why the preset is called "braindead') and will encode all the way up to 22.05KHz if the signals are strong enough (if they aren't strong enough, then the human ear probably can't hear them anyway). It would be a tremendous feat to hear a difference between a 20KHz lowpass clip and a 22KHz lowpass clip, for instance.

You may be right about being able to ABX the difference. However I seem to be able to tell the difference on my home stereo. :insane: My preference is still to be able to use the fine tuning of --braindead with the full spectrum. Can duckys switch be confirmed. Thanks.

BTW: I don't mean to be argumentitive on this point :argue: just want to be satisfied.

Also This is directed toward 2Bdecided, I've been reading some of your work. Very interesting. Has there been any studies done as to a persons moods and what they hear in music. Sounds common sense but I'm curious.

yes. ducky was correct.

--braindead --minSMR 3

this will encode the bat-like signals, and will be probably close to 300kbps