but they're a lot rarer than 'audiophile' culture would have you believe! There may be some people with better hearing than mine who can, if they work hard at it, tell the difference. I do, by the way, but the difference is so small to me that unless I'm listening to some intense, acoustical music, I can barely hear the difference, using my nice 7.1 home theater system, and can't tell it at all using my high-end Sennheiser headphones. You need HIGH END SOUND REPRODUCTION hardware to be able to actually hear the difference, and few people have that. But it's hard to find people who can actually hear the difference. That's quite a bit higher than the standard MP3, at 128,000 bytes per second. 'Redbook' audio is 176 kBps (or 1,411,200 bits per second). The highest quality MP3 format is 320 kbps, but that's a lot less common in use.ġ28 kpbs isn't super-high, but 'CD quality' isn't that much better to most people's ears.

I converted them to this from the original WAV format packed into the game archives, though.Įach is 128 kbps. entitled 'Intro,' 'Town,' 'Dungeon,' 'Catacombs,' 'Caves,' and 'Hell.' Each, as I have them are, MP3 files. Well, I play them on my (very nice) home entertainment system, and they sound marvelous to me, and I have a pretty good ear.

Konroth: the files you are talking about are not CD quality.īlizzard wants us to pay extra, obviously.

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