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Topic: WMA VBR75 vs WMA ABR128 (Read 2735 times) previous topic - next topic
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WMA VBR75 vs WMA ABR128

Here are two samples (piano and string quartett). The ABR (VBR 2-pass) encoding sounds clearly less degraded than with pure VBR. On piano, pre-echo is reduced with ABR. Both have problems (it's wma), but VBR encoding sound worse to my ears.

Archive contains:
- lossless sample (optim frog)
- vbr encoding
- vbr 2pass encoding

Size is ~1.2 MB for each zip file.

WMA VBR75 vs WMA ABR128

Reply #1 –
The second file:

Note that a big difference in size exists between the two encodings.


EDIT: sample added