Codec choice poll
Reply #22 – 2002-09-28 02:46:20
Lol, I knew I'd be jumped on for saying such things!AAC has ~5ms pre-echo and MPC has ~2ms pre-echo To me, these are both very small and so are similar. I can't identify pre-echo in any AAC file I've played. I don't see why 5ms should be a clear problem whereas 2ms is totally undetectable.I guess you can say "Equal quality to MPC at the highest end", yeah, but it's simply false. MPC is better at the "highest end". That's battling my uncommon opinion with your more widely believed opinion! Nobody has done the golden thing of ABXing AAC vs MPC in a musical sample other than fatboy! I need to see something I could see a difference in to be swayed. My thoughts on it are that both AAC and MPC are at the point where at 160kb+ they are transparent. Heck, I couldn't ABX an 88kb AAC from the original wave! Unless you have good equipment in a good listening environment, with good hearing and you are actively looking for faults, you won't spot any difference between these codecs. I'm not looking for faults unless I'm testing, I'm looking for good music Seriously, does that make me not an audiophile? (eg, what is one, other than one who loves music?) 160kb is the magic number for MPC. Below that point its very nature prevents it from doing well? That just isn't flexible enough! That's my main complaint with MPC. My other 2 complaints was it's community didn't have a Rjamorim in it, and I didn't like it's lowpassing... it looked mechanical, whereas AAC's looks more natural. (you see how er, non technical I can be)