[elnero]

Found this article linking audio compression as one possible cause of Tinnitus. Thought others might be interested.

 

[elipsis]

No, I'm pretty sure mine was caused by all the 110dB+ concerts

 

[redshifter]

yeah, this was posted before. if we grant his theory of missing acoustic information in data-compressed music as a cause of hearing damage, what about euphonic distortion introduced by amps and headphones? wouldn't the added euphonics "fill in" the missing inaudible musical information filtered out by the codec? after all, aren't euphonics just another--albeit pleasant--artifact that is mostly ignored by the brain? also, has he examined how every codec operates, such as atrac-r that uses acoustic shaping? also, how can he claim 70:1 compressed music sounds as good as uncompressed music?