2014 codec poll
Reply #45 –
Listening to some music on the go this morning, I realised I'd forgotten to mention another reason why I do stand by hybrid WavPack when it comes to choosing a CODEC:
There simply is no psychoacoustical artifacts to worry about as it could be the case (I said "could" not "would", just to be on the safe side of TOS8 ) with some problematic samples for other lossy CODECS (Suzanne Vegas' Tom's Diner anyone?):
All you have to worry your well-trained ears about (after years of lossy encoding & hanging around on Hydrogen Audio) is just the noise floor, that can be easily put in the leach by increasing the bitrate and tweakening one or two switches during encoding, in case you happen to detect it (which practically seldom happens, given the kind of environment one usually listens to lossy files under).
And no, Bryant is not endorsing me or anything of the kind : it's just that as the days pile up since I've started using it, I realise how unique this CODEC is.