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Old 01-12-2007, 10:16 AM   #1 (permalink)
 
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I did this experiment

I took the original 320kb/s track clip... (320 Kbps, 48000 Hz)
Reduced its quality (192 Kbps, 32000 Hz)
Reduced its quality even further (112 Kbps, 12000 Hz)
Then resampled the 112 Kbps clip back up to the original bitrate (320 Kbps, 48000 Hz).
There is a noticable difference when increasing the bitrate of a low quality clip

My question why did I get a better quality when I converted the song from 112 Kbps to 320 Kbps ?

I thought that increasing bitrate doesn't improve quality !!
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You're hallucinating. That's not possible.
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Old 01-12-2007, 12:50 PM   #3 (permalink)
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um, i'm gonna listen to those tracks. But yeah, you can't make apples from apple juice.
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