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My recordings of Lille and Hasselt can be found on DIME

What's the origin of that version of FN ?

If we really want to judge the differences in sound quality, we should also have access to a spectrogram.

The spectral range of a recording tells a lot about the sound quality.

VM

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GroovyMusic wrote:Oh really? Like what videos? How long are they? A Symphony of Sound is 50 minutes long, so I'm betting the audio is compressed.

If it's _only_ 50 minutes long, then I'm guessing the audio is uncompressed. But hey, I'm only guessing. Maybe someone can confirm or deny this.

You're mixing up DVDs with DVD-Audio . The audio on regular DVD videos is compressed so there's room for the video. DVD-Audio is a format where the entire DVD is devoted to the audio. I'm not talking about DVD-Audio at all. I'm talking about music DVD-Video's. These are NOT compressed at all. I've ...

GroovyMusic wrote:

simonm wrote: DVD is lossy.

If dvd is lossy, then cd is even more lossy. Actually the audio on a dvd is at a higher sampling rate and bit depth (48kHz, 24bits) than an audio cd (44,1kHz,16bits).

The first one clearly sounds better (much more balanced EQ), although there's some vinyl crackling.

What sources are those from ?

Can I jump on the bandwagon too ? I want to join the European vine since I'm from Belgium.