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(07-01-2014 12:06)retraite Wrote:  Hi Simon

Haven't really had time to do much comparative listening as yet, but will do so over the next few days. The only comment at the moment is that stations using an aac stream generally seem to sound better, particularly transcoded, than those using mp3. That is an "off the cuff" response as there also seems to be a considerable difference in volume level between the mp3 stations (particularly Linn) and the BBC channels so more direct comparison will need some manual intervention and an increased attention span - something I'm apparently not noted for these days.

Thanks for these initial observations. I would expect AAC to sound better than MP3 for the same bitrate, as AAC uses a more technically advanced encoding alogorithm.