Mike Walker said:Let's repeat that test, but a little differently. Say you can REALLY hear aac+ processing on a 96kbps HD broadcast? PROVE IT! Before are four files. All are uncompressed .wav. Two of them are straight cd rips from Working in a Coal Mine, cut 1 on Harry Connick Jr's new album "Oh My NOLA". One of them was encoded in AAC+ at 96kbps, then decoded back to uncompressed .wav. The other was encoded in AAC+ at 48kbps, then decoded back to uncompressed .wav (simulating an HD2 stream). Encoding was done with MediaCoder (I don't have aac+ on my workstation program...Adobe Audition).
If you really can tell such a huge degradation from aac+ coding on HD radio, PROVE IT! Tell me which two of these files are uncompressed cd rips, which one was compressed to aac+ at 96kbps, and which was compressed at 48kbps. If you don't get all four then you've proven one thing...you're only guessing! Science...what a concept!
I'm at the airport now, and can't wait to get home and try with headphones.
But do us a favor, and find some music where you also have the original on viynl, so we can start with a source which originally was not digital to begin with. Even a pure, single note at 22,050 hz, the theorectical upper limit of the CD medium, will not be reproduced properly on a CD, since phase-timing may mean that we can measure the waveform only twice in one cycle, and if this falls on zero crossing, there is no reproduction of the note. If the phase timing falls on sine peaks, the two points measured then reproduce as a sawtooth wave, or the reconstruction of the wave must assume sine waves. If the original source as non-sinusoidal, as most speech and music is, we get phase distortion.
I suspect the above recording will sound like the previous WDAV clip, good, but with super-fine-tooth comb effects strangely accentuating
material near the upper-end resolution of the sampling.
If not Harry C, perhaps something