So today, I’m tinkering with my sound and music compression – trying to see how small to compress things, what sample rate, stereo/mono, etc.

While the quality levels were clearly audible for most of these parameters, surprisingly, there didn’t seem to be much difference between stereo and mono. Maybe the songs I’m using don’t have much stereo ‘spread’ to them?

After about 45 minutes of testing and tinkering with the files, I noticed that my left speaker was dead.

It’s hard to get a stereo effect from one (working) speaker only.

Aftermath: I couldn’t resuscitate the speaker, but after a quick trip to Best Buy, have better speakers than I had before. Having (working) stereo made a BIG difference, and in fact, I’ve traded off some ‘quality’ in the signal itself to allocated space for stereo music and stereo versions of certain sound FX.

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