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Real Audio G2 - Normal Quality Level
| Real Networks has been the leader in streaming
audio and video for quite some time. This heritage seems to make itself
felt in this compressor as well. The emphasis is on small file sizes and
not on quality. Also now that Real Networks has acquired Xing Technologies
they will probably use Xing based technology for the higher end of the
quality spectrum. Considering all this I have not rated this encoding scheme
but merely include it for comparison purposes. That said, I expected it
to hold out against at least TwinVQ (similar file sizes) but it fails to
do this. |
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Real Networks G2 Toolkit |
Observations
| Applaud
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Hardly resembles the original
with a very tiny sound. |
| Castanets
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Spreads all
the highs into a hissing sound. |
| Else
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Shows a less
pronounced version of what happens above. But overall indicates a marked
improvement when encoding music as opposed to single instruments and other
sounds. |
(If you have a problem downloading these files
right click on them and select save as)
This just won't do for our purposes. Even for
streaming audio alone it seems to lack quality. The only real strength
I see is when doing video clips with sound where the audio quality drop
is acceptable.
(Not Rated)
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