[BC] dueling algorithms and audio quality

[Kirk Harnack]

Tom Bosscher wrote, in part:

>     But the gentleman at Promo MPE I was working with, told me about how
> often, way too often, a music label 'person" would send Promo MPE a MP3
> or variant as the file to send to all the stations. So then that would
> be "upuncompressed", but of course, quality is gone by now. He told me
> that this was a consistent problem, the recording label not wanting to
> take the time to learn what was killing their quality.

Wow.  Like that would take more than 5 minutes to understand if they just talked
to the right person.  Half of the people on this list - or more - could 'splain
it.

I wonder if there were any articles in R&R or other PD magazines that brought up
quality problems with cascading algorithms or using any one of them at too low a
bitrate.

Kirk