-=> Jason Vierik wrote to Neall Mercado <=-

 >
 > It would be greatly appreciated if you will try to listen to a music from an
 > original audio CD and compare it to your 128Kbps MP3 audio file.  You can
 > feel the difference, even if you are using an entry-level audio equipment.

 JV> I burn MP3 CDs all the time on my computer, and then play them on my
 JV> Sony MP3 car stereo.  I can tell no difference between the 128Kbps MP3
 JV> files and an audio CD.   ???

I understand that Jason. If you can tell no difference between those audio 
formats from each other, therefore you can surely say that 128Kbps MP3 audio 
is a CD-quality format.

But the fact is: Some portion of the audio information (or the waveform) on 
the uncompressed format will be lost after converting it into MP3.  Some 
decoders were able to fill-up that lost part using their own proprietary
interpolation technique, but still...it is not the exact information stored on 
the original uncompressed format.  We can safely say that the MP3 sounds
like an audio CD (or NEAR-CD), but not CD-quality -- technically speaking.

However, were you really able to burn an MP3 CD that can be read by the
Sony MP3 car stereo using your computer's CD burner?  I think those units have
their own proprietary format.



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