Posted by NRen2k5 on 05/26/07 11:43

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> Not a myth, the stereo separation and sound quality between proper
> stereo and joint stereo bear no comparison, although anyone listening
> to the resultant sound through a sound card and computer speakers
> would not be able to tell.
>
> An easy test is to encode a track to joint stereo, then to proper
> stereo, then ask yourself why the joint stereo track is slightly
> smaller in file size, what information is lost?

Information is not lost. It's encoded more efficiently. In VBR this
means you get the same sound quality at a lower bitrate. In CBR it means
you get better quality since the bitrate is fixed.

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