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Gum disease is usually more of a problem than cavities in adulthood. Floss once a day, brush twice a day (learn how to brush the right way), and see a dentist every six months. If you haven't seen one in years, you'd better get going. Trust me, you want to keep your original teeth...

Joint stereo is default for the codec used within MMJB 5 "normal" (Fraunhofer's FastEnc) all the way up to the highest bitrates. In fact, there is no way to change it to normal stereo if you wanted to. Nevertheless, this codec sounds just fine at 192 and 256 kbit/s. Joint-stereo...

I don't remember the first mp3 I downloaded, but it was from alt.binaries.sounds.music, and it was probably a hard rock song. I remember the first ones I encoded more clearly. They're here: http://www.iocon.com/das/sounds_m.shtml The Star Wars clips culled from VHS tape, encoded using l3enc...

<< WTF? Why the humungous dropoff at the high end??? >> A spectrum analysis averaged over the entire sample might imply a big cut in high frequencies above 16 kHz, when in fact the true story (what one actually hears) is better represented by a spectral view (frequency vs. time). For...

Here's that article, translated to English: http://fets3.freetranslation.com:5081/?Sequence=core&amp;Language=German%2FEnglish&amp;Url=www.heise.de%2Fct%2F00%2F06%2F092%2Fdefault.shtml They tested 300 audiophiles, with both B&amp;W Nautilus 803 speakers and Sennheiser Orpheus Electrostatic...

The surest sign your muscles are growing: you can do more reps or lift heavier weights the next time.

Hey thanks for the compliment on my site, Glen. Why does sample123 sound better? Probably mostly because it had more bits to play with, like divinemartyr said. There's no guarantee it would sound better (or even as good as) Lame at the same average bitrate. ff123 ff123's site: Discussion of...

Oh sharkeeper, You spoiled the fun. I prefer spectral view (i.e., frequency vs. time) rather than spectrum analysis which is averaged over the entire sample. That encoding is SLIGHTLY better ff123, and uses a higher bitrate, so it's obvious why. I couldn't tell what the average bitrate the...

For those who could hear the difference (you know who you are), what do you think of the following mp3, using the same sample of music? I encoded it with Fraunhofer's VBR, found within Cool Edit Pro with the MP3 ME plugin, 100% quality. The bitrate averages 202 kbit/s. By the way, I couldn't...