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To: BuzzVA who wrote (7667)	9/5/1999 1:02:00 PM
From: JimC1997	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18366

To those who wish to see the article from Stereo Review, here it is: soundandvisionmag.com I read through it and the author seems to have done a careful comparison using sufficient safeguards to insure that no bias could influence the outcome. One point that should be understood is that the listening was done by each panel member on their own audio equipment. How the various CODECs would compare on portable music players may be more important in the long run. Other factors will also make a significant impact on both the consumer and industry choice of CODEC. These factors will include the time and cost of encoding, the speed of downloading, the storage space consumed on the PC hard disk or portable player flash memory. It is good to see a wider discussion of the technical merits of EPAC and the other CODECs. Perhaps the review will prompt Lucent to begin a campaign to demonstrate the technical superiority of their CODEC. I agree that MP3 will eventually fade into obscurity as a format, because the economic incentives of content protection will insure that the record labels will always choose a format that provides security. The only relevant comparison will be EPAC verses the other secure formats. Jim