View Full Version : MP3 to wav and to mp3 .......sound quality issues ?
Jordee
07-16-2003, 11:17 PM
Just a silly, basic question : If i have a 96kbps Mp3, then convert it to Wav and then to 192kbps MP3.........what's the true quality of this last MP3 ?
The thing is, once a file is compressed to mp3, is there a way to uncompressing it and returning it into original's quality ?
reorx24
07-17-2003, 03:34 AM
No. Simply put, water cannot go higher than its source. I am assuming your original source is the 96 kbps MP3. Once you convert it to wav file, all the information lost when it was originally compressed do not return. Meaning to say, what you have now is a wav file with the quality of a 96 kbps mp3.
Once a wav file is compressed into mp3 format, and that mp3 is converted back into a wav file, the 2nd wav file is not of original quality anymore. Thats why mp3 encoding is termed as "lossy". This has been explained in much more technical terms in this forum, and other audiophile fora. Hope this helps.
stasyna
08-13-2003, 11:06 AM
True quality will be lower than 96.
96 is original source.
96 -> 1411 ( no change ) then you're going to 192 which is losing MORE information than it did at 96.