Removing signal redundancy trades effectiveness against available encoding resources.

Evidence

However, all signal redundancy removal schemes have to tread an uneasy balance between increasing their effectiveness, which requires more side information, and having sufficient resources to effectively encode the actual audio signal information. — David Howard, Jamie Angus, coustics and Psychoacoustics, 2607

Categorization

• XREF: Same tradeoff logic as the trade institutions literature on information versus enforcement costs — efficiency gains demand more side information.