Re: Making a package that amounts to GBs of .wavs data?

[Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco@yahoo.it>]

Hi,


>I would say no :). Lossless is mathematically lossless, which is useful
>for storing purposes or manipulating the signal (our case). If you don't
>use lossless then you are missing information. Example: MP3, which uses
>psychoacoustics (among other things) to discard what a human may/cannot
>hear, but must sound lossy to a cat (assuming we are reproducing the
>sounds in a perfect chain with perfect speakers).


some people might disagree here, but normally the human ear can't listen those
frequencies :)

cheers,

G.