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Originally Posted by smoke  Lagerfeldt, I enjoy your tips. What do you consider are the differences between joint stereo and normal stereo in iTunes. I mean in layman's terms your opinion on the sonic or spatial difference in the resulting file? |
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I'd love to explain it myself but someone else already did this for me:
MP3 conversion: Joint Stereo - The Myths And The Realities
Joint Stereo: The Myths ... and The Realities
Rather long, but very interesting. It's a question of joint stereo improving over-all sound quality, not just spatial information, by using the M/S principle. Correctly implemented joint stereo (not to be confused with intensity stereo, which is sometimes referred to as joint stereo too) will always give you the best sound quality since it switches between M/S and regular stereo encoding whenever necessary. This way you get the best of both worlds.