http://blogs.oldradio.net/archives/2008/10/18/cecil-and-sally-undated-episode/ Ramblings of an Old Man on Old-Time and Contemporary Radio, Television, the Arts, and the News; includes OTR Podcast Sat, 19 May 2012 21:01:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://blogs.oldradio.net/archives/2008/10/18/cecil-and-sally-undated-episode/#comment-7963 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:12:48 +0000 http://blogs.oldradio.net/archives/2008/10/18/cecil-and-sally-undated-episode/#comment-7963 [...] Let me give you an example. A while back on this podcast, I posted an episode of Cecil and Sally provided to me by Fred Berney. Naturally, someone took my 32kbps file, “cleaned” it (probably by converting to WAV file and running it through open-source noise-reduction software), then re-encoded it to 96kbps and posted it on the newsgroups as an “improvement.” Of course, the only thing that person could accomplish without having access to the source file (which was/is on CD) is remove more information, making it sound worse, not better. This is why we have so much garbage sound out there…people who either don’t give a rat’s patoots about the sound quality in the first place, or people who are foolish enough to think they can “improve” a low-bandwidth file by transcoding to a higher bandwidth. [...] […] Let me give you an example. A while back on this podcast, I posted an episode of Cecil and Sally provided to me by Fred Berney. Naturally, someone took my 32kbps file, “cleaned” it (probably by converting to WAV file and running it through open-source noise-reduction software), then re-encoded it to 96kbps and posted it on the newsgroups as an “improvement.” Of course, the only thing that person could accomplish without having access to the source file (which was/is on CD) is remove more information, making it sound worse, not better. This is why we have so much garbage sound out there…people who either don’t give a rat’s patoots about the sound quality in the first place, or people who are foolish enough to think they can “improve” a low-bandwidth file by transcoding to a higher bandwidth. […]

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