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Now you guys are being deliberately obtuse...

SEJ and PatD:

I was simply responding to the given example. How that relates to my ability to search with Google, I'm not sure. As Ebiz Strategy VP with a $10Bn company, I feel reasonably comfortable that I understand how to use the web....

jj's bio and his obvious expertise are not an issue, as far as I'm concerned; the only question is whether that expertise has been applied to pushing the state of the art in faithful sound reproduction, or solving compression/encoding problems in data transmission to allow most efficient data transfer.

Yes, the 2 are indirectly realted...It's certainly possible to view MP3 from 2 perspectives:

1) How much data can I remove without significant damage? In other words, what's the minimum bandwidth I can use to nominally preserve sound quality. How much can I throw away before it's detectable?

2) What's the maximum amount of meaningful information I can transmit given a specific bandwidth? This could be a way to achieve maximum subjective fidelity given a limited transmission channel.

At it's root, lossy encoding is essentially a question of minimizng the damage caused by throwing away data. As such, it seems inherently at odds with the concept of maximizing fidelity. Obviously, the least damage is done by not losing anything. Has anyone ever suggested that things sound better after running through an MP3 encoder?

A friend once told me: "Good Enough is Best's worst enemy". Applies perfectly here.

Peter

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