Posts by bigshot

Quote:Originally Posted by julian67 Actually my point was that gross artefacts are usually not subtle but harmonic changes or changes in stereo image can be subtle. You should uncheck "joint stereo" when you encode.

How long would it take you to rip 10,000 CDs?

I just looked at that lightning adaptor. It looks like it just outputs to HDMI or USB. Both of those would require an external DAC. The difference in sound quality is going to be negligible. If I had an iPhone 5, I would just use the...

In blind testing AAC 256 VBR (which is the setting the iTunes store uses) is audibly transparent with lossless. You aren't going to hear any difference at all. It will just fill up your iPhone fast.   I have a very nice sound...

Quote: Originally Posted by Marleybob217  I don't like the rolling stones either. I haven't listened to all of their stuff   That doesn't exactly make it an informed opinion then.   Music is a...

Quote: Originally Posted by chewy4  Granted you're right it's very improbable any flaw is going to be due to a compression artifacts at 256kbps+ bitrates at either LAME mp3 or aac, and I do understand why you take the...

Quote: Originally Posted by julian67  I like your approach, it makes a lot of sense, but I think you've been quite lucky...so far. AAC constrained VBR at around 256 is a very reasonable standard to settle on but no lossy...

The complexity or density of the music has absolutely nothing to do with whether a sound will artifact or not. Some sounds artifact and other sounds don't. It can be a pure clear tone or a massed chord. It either does or it doesn't. I...

With an iPhone, the only thing you need to get the best sound is a standard Apple line out dock and a simple headphone amp. That shouldn't cost more than $100. Even that is overkill, because a lot of headphones sound fine plugged...

They'll be doing Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung with string quartets next! Or perhaps Mahler's Symmphony of a Thousand with a trio!