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Headphoneus Supremus
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I found this over at NPR's site and figured I would post it for everyone here. They give some actual examples of playing a track from CD and then compressing it. They then invert the compressed file and add it to the original track. If the two tracks are exactly identical the resultant would be null.
I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did.
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=146697658&m=146697647
Particularly at time 20:10...
I also have a few questions for you all:
Can you hear the difference using a hi-fi source vs a good DAC? For example if you use a hi-fi CD transport and then play the exact same track via AAC using a hi-fi DAC can you honestly hear a difference?
I am looking for definitive answers, because it has been my experience that a hi-fi DAC can make most high quality, yet compressed, music sound just about as good as the original. If you dig around over at Headphone.com in the DAC section you can see they also agree.
In addition have any of you taken a track from Vinyl and then subtracted out the equivalent CD track to see what is left?
Happy New Year to you all.
I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did.
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=146697658&m=146697647
Particularly at time 20:10...
I also have a few questions for you all:
Can you hear the difference using a hi-fi source vs a good DAC? For example if you use a hi-fi CD transport and then play the exact same track via AAC using a hi-fi DAC can you honestly hear a difference?
I am looking for definitive answers, because it has been my experience that a hi-fi DAC can make most high quality, yet compressed, music sound just about as good as the original. If you dig around over at Headphone.com in the DAC section you can see they also agree.
In addition have any of you taken a track from Vinyl and then subtracted out the equivalent CD track to see what is left?
Happy New Year to you all.