воскресенье, 28 Сентябрь 2008
Nero AAC Encoder 1.3.3.0
A few days ago the new version of free Nero AAC Encoder (1.3.3.0) became available. According to its change log there are no significant improvements affecting quality of stereo encoding though. But taking into account that previous version (1.1.34.2) didn’t participate in SE testing at all and any version of this encoder never tested at SE at low bit rates where it usually shows the best efficiency we decided to perform extensive testing of the new encoder starting from low bit rates (thank you, Lance Penguin for this proposal). First four settings added are VBR: -q 0.15, -q 0.20, -q 0.25, -q 0.35. They dropped into the sections respectively: 32 kbit/s, 48 kbit/s, 64 kbit/s, 96 kbit/s. We intentionally did not tune resulting bitrates with q – parameter but exercised commonly used anchor values instead. Fine-tuned contenders can be added later if needed. As usually first reliable results will appear in a week or two. Thank you all for participation in listening tests and Vito Marolda personally for donation.
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Yes, this is our holiday. It’s really funny that most of us having good education and common sense are easily assified by marketers and sales persons. Have you ever dreamed about those fascinating tube amplifiers with miraculous warm sound and hot air over device? (recommended for countries with cold climate). And how about those funny tiny glittering cones, advanced power cords and precious interconnection cables with very strict and serious arrows? You might think that wireless audio connections will put an end to this cable cheating. I’m not sure; I’m waiting for the first air conditioning system specially designed for listening/home theater rooms (... you know, some wireless audio digits could be slow because of dust particles causing so called “air-jitter” ...). It’s worth to mention the quality of modern over-compressed audio CDs and prices of iTunes songs with just tolerable 128kbit/s quality and restricted usability. And finally if you still want to have clear sound at home you have to buy Blue-Ray player and wait a little bit for all your favorite music reissued on new media by recording industry. Looks like joke, isn’t it? Definitely it’s our Day.