

What many fail to realise unless keenly tuned in to the nuances of one's own emotional response to music is that even if we are not consciously aware that something is missing our brain is still sub-consciously aware that not all of the stimulus is present.īut as I have said, it comes down to what you yourself find satisfying ~ if your own emotional response is no different listening to Mp3 than it is listening to full-frequency spectrum audio, then it is irrelevant. I am not talking about psychological factors that enter in to considerations when analysing music critically, but the natural way our brains react to even sound that is not discernable from a characteristic analysis, through neuro-processing in the brain.

The way humans process sound information happens on an emotional-response level. I can pick it out in blind testing by comparison 100% of the time. My ears find Mp3 to be noticeably "hollow"-sounding, thin, less-rich. In reality an Mp3 can sacrifice roughly 38% of the sound that is present in the full spectrum, through data-compression. Click to expand.It is up to your ears and these only.
