Digital audio listening test

[UrosM]

> 
> I am not sure if its really the compression or just badly encoded files, but
> most mp3s sound crap to me.
> Especially orchestral music and acoustic recordings with lots of dynamic
> range (e.g. acoustic guitar) cause me ear fatigue.
> Have a whole bunch of dance/electro MP3s though and they sound fine to me.
> 
Well , I found annoying artifacts in not so subtle music ( mp3 did
abysmal
stuff to Funkadelics' Atmosphere which is only organ and minimoog , no
pulsey
stuff ) . Mp3 usually suks for me too.
And hare are few questions :
1) How do perform other audio compression algorithms bundled with mpeg 
( one would except that they improved stuff with mpeg2 and mpeg4)
2) Anyone have any idea why Radar3 recorder has 192kHz sampling rate 
( I would assume that they are telling lies but new compact Mackies
also have stated channel bandwidth of 190kHz ? Also , friend of
mine recorded some guys doing some classical string stuff and they
refused 48k dat recording and used analog recorder instead . And
finally I run on article on web that tells some strange things about
over 20khz human hearing ability . Whats up with all this ?)

chiirz
urosh