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lossy to lossless?

Recently I copied some older downloaded (legally downloaded) MP3s to my Itunes Music Library. As an experiment I converted some of these to Apple Lossless using Itunes.

These files sounded much better after conversion. Not as good as new CDs freshly ripped from the jewellbox(so to speak) but definitely cleaner and more “punchy”. This improvement seems counter-intuitive to me however, as I know the converter is not reconstructing a lossless file from a lossy file.

When lossy files are converted to a lossless format does the converter beef them up or clean them up in some way?
jpod

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Mlsstl,

Thanks for the reply. It probably is my imagination--it has certainly lead me astray in other matters.

And I think you are right about the MP3 codec. If there is a difference, it is probably due to how well the file is converted directly from MP3 to audio. Makes me wonder if I should use a different player for the MP3s.
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