no, that hasn't been my experience at all.
when I put the Radio 100 stream into 32kbps/22khz with darkice, there
was a big improvement in sound quality. And it was better than just in
mono.
Radio 100 plays mostly "alternative" and "experimental"
music.
Sadly, I had to the Radio 100 stream back down to 30kbps/11khz stereo
since it's being encoded on even a cheaper box which again couldn't
handle darkice.
as for a mono stream which could sound much better in stereo than it
does in mono (the lesser of the two evils here) then listen to this
stream:
http://www.onamallorca.net:8000/ona.ogg
likewise, it would sound much better at 22khz mono as well.
boink.
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:29:20AM +1200, Ross Levis
wrote:> > I agree with you here ... I wish that I could put the stream
> > into 30kbps/22khz stereo but the little Pen 166 MMX just
> > can't handle that.
>
> 30kbps/22khz stereo, which I think would only be possible with managed
> bitrates, would sound worse than mono. At these bitrates, stereo is
> luxury you cannot afford. I think most listeners would not even notice
> they were listening to mono and would appreciate the higher sound
> quality.
> 64kb/s, however, is another story.
>
> Cheers,
> Ross.
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