Stereo or Joint Stereo? 44100 or 48000?

Originally Posted by Soluzar

Joint Stereo is what you call it when the same sound comes out of both speakers. It's like monaural multiplied by two. It sucks, go with stereo.

Wow, that's just plain wrong! Think of Joint Stereo as a way to encode the stereo signal losslessly. It fully preserves the stereo channel information! Full Stereo encodes both channels seperately, thus reducing the effective bitrate of the encoded material. So using the same bitrate, a JS encoded file will sound superior to a FS encoded one.

LAME's method of encoding Joint Stereo is superior to Full Stereo with virtually any material. That's why knowledgable people usually suggest using Joint Stereo over Stereo (at least when encoding with LAME) any time.

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Originally Posted by arch_slayer

Thus, stereo remains higher quality in this case.

Well, no. Did you even read the thread? Joint stereo does not use a single channel and seperate stereo is a waste of bandwidth (at least with Lame).

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