QUOTE(Talaikya @ Jul 28 2006, 03:48 PM)
... and share your verdict with us please (there I go being lazy again, or is it smart?)
Lol, Tji, could be both.
Ok, my humble opinion: The one r&d has uploaded is different than the one I uploaded in the following way: dialgoue starts off the song, followed by the same segment as the cassette version I uploaded, followed by an extra stanza that begins Kuch Tau Batao Kahan Kho Gayee Ho..........
As far as the quality on those, if it's true that the one r&d has uploaded has been re-encoded from Surjit's website, then proof of re-encoding at higher bitrates resulting in decreased quality was never more apparent (at least on my studio headphones). The ones at the website are at 20 kbps I believe therefore for folks wanting to burn to cd it will cause a problem, which is probably why it was re-encoded to 128.... which has degraded the quality. Personally I would just listen to them in mp3 and keep them as they are from Surjit's website.
I'm also bitten by the good sound bug Tji, often re-encoding a cassette if I didn't like the way a music company "digitized" the song and put it on CD. (I have bought the Nusrat/Javed Sangam CD 4 times and every copy had a glitch in Afreen Afreen, finally having to digitize it from the cassette which I had owned first, lol.) The equipment I use is all awesome quality, so much so that many times I hear defects people often do not notice, but when I go put the same track for example on an mp3 disc and play in the car or home stereo - I'm like wow this is really CDQ! Lol, and then I feel better. However having said that, I do not like "enhanced" versions a la the revival series. I just record it into the computer passing it through an initial hiss filter, and then sometimes, not always, use the Noise Reduction feature in Adobe Audition after it has been recorded, but always to the minimum effect so not to dull the voices. I don't play with anything else such as boosting the treble or bass. And I like to share it in the best possible quality as well.