Sound Quest
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Thing is though. CD's are so badly mastered these days, that they don't really benefit from being lossless.
Everything is compressed to sound as loud as possible. So any benefit you get from lossless over lossy is almost non-existent.
I know a guy that has all the "Now Thats What I Call Music" albums stored on his PC in FLAC. But I keep asking him what the point is, because it still sounds awful, even in lossless.
It's unfortunate that we are in the beginning of the demise of the CD. I can't find hardly anything I like new on CD locally anymore. I would have to buy the CD from Amazon or overseas somewhere and pay an arm and a leg for shipping. Electronic artists especially are really going "digital download only". For example, Alex M.O.R.P.H.'s latest album "Prime Mover (2012)" is only available in the US as 320 kbps MP3 files.
Thing is though. CD's are so badly mastered these days, that they don't really benefit from being lossless.
Everything is compressed to sound as loud as possible. So any benefit you get from lossless over lossy is almost non-existent.
I know a guy that has all the "Now Thats What I Call Music" albums stored on his PC in FLAC. But I keep asking him what the point is, because it still sounds awful, even in lossless.