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Originally Posted by vanblah
The place I notice differences in bit-rates <i>most</i> is in cymbal washes. There is also a lack of clarity in the bottom end; but it's not as noticeable because my system doesn't really have good bottom end anyway.
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Point of interest: the loss in the bottom end comes more from a stereo technique than from bitrates. The vast majority of mp3's are encoded using 'joint stereo,' which mashes the stereo signals together into a monaural one below a certain frequency threshold. The theory is that since low frequencies are hard to locate anyway, the listener doesn't really lose very much. In practice it depends on the quality of the codec used.
I've never been able to detect a noticeable difference between 192kbps and 320 kbps either, so I'm not the one to ask about that.
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