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Old 14th October 2010, 15:13   #10632  |  Link
TinTime
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Originally Posted by iSeries View Post
As 640kbps equals 106.66kbps per channel for 5.1 AC3 and is considered transparent enough for most people, then for 2.0 I guess 224kbps should offer similar quality?
Only if each channel is treated equally. I don't know how the bits are distributed so I'm not sure what the 2.0 equivalent would be. I suspect the front centre gets a good chunk of the allocation in a 5.1 stream, and the LFE gets very little.
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