Ravi Shankar - Chants Of India 1997 Only1joe Flac ~repack~ -

MP3 (even at 320kbps) uses a psychoacoustic model that discards "masked" frequencies. In a dense Vedic chant, the MP3 algorithm often throws away the subtle harmonic overtones of the male voice or the complex shimmer of the tambura. is mathematically identical to the CD. In a 1997 recording with quiet passages ( Asato Maa begins in near silence), MP3s introduce "pre-echo" artifacts—a smearing of sound before the note actually hits.