CD Quality Streaming

[erniejay]

I am setting up a Point to point audio feed for our high school radio station.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, AT&T, What do I ask for to order a DSL service? Cable is out of the question.
need static DSL over Landline to set up ***a streaming CD Quality (128KBps) Stereo connectivity? *** Only answer if you are pro at this stuff, please.

Thanks,
Ernie

 

[hang-the-9]

128 is not really "cd quality", especially when it comes to MP3. To get a good almost CD like compressed audio, you need about a 192 kbit/s. In tests done with good quallity compression, at 256 kbit/s even people with great hearing could not distinguish between a CD and an MP3. This was done on very high-end audio equipment with headphones. So the sweet spot for size vs. quality is 192 VBR MP3.

If you get a 2-3MB DSL connection you will have enough bandwidth to send uncompressed CD audio over. You don't really need a 'pro" to answer, anyone who knows about streaming and DSL can answer easily.

Stole this from wiki:

128 kbit/s 128,000 16,000 Audio data 128 kb/s MP3 – 128,000 b/s

192 kbit/s 192,000 24,000 Audio data Nearly CD quality for a file compressed in the MP3 format

1,411.2 kbit/s 1,411,200 176,400 Audio data CD audio (uncompressed, 16 bit samples × 44.1 kHz × 2 channels)