[BC] RAIN report: HD Radio s Creative Thinking

[Robert Orban]

At 09:18 PM 10/14/2005, you wrote:
>From: DANA PUOPOLO <dpuopolo at usa.net>
>Subject: Re: [BC] RAIN report: HD Radio s Creative Thinking
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>I have heard AAC plus, and even at 96K can clearly hear its artifacts.
>I would wager that most women can (clearly) hear them too. But after all,
>women only represent 55-60% of the audience, so why do they matter?
>When you remove 95+ % of anything, it's not going to sound nearly as good as
>the original.
>
>So my comparison IS valid!

While you are of course entitled to your preference, you seem to be 
unusually sensitive to SBR's artifacts, at least according to the 
double-blind listening tests made by Coding Technologies, not to mention 
3GPP2 (3rd Generation Partnership Project 2), ISMA (Internet Streaming 
Media Alliance), DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting), the DVD Forum, Digital 
Radio Mondiale, and 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project), all of which 
have standardized on aacPlusV1 or aacPlusV2 and/or accepted the aacPlus 
codec as part of their system specifications. I am suspect all of the 
listening panels included women, as these are all serious organizations and 
did not make their choices frivolously.

Bob Orban