dazzerfong
1000+ Head-Fier
Your headphones make the difference more than anything.
I'd having argued that the mastering of the song is the top.
Your headphones make the difference more than anything.
Whilst I would agree that if mastered terribly it'll sound bad on whatever you listen with, that is different to the bitrate discussion, I assume where bigshot was going with the point is that it would be better to spend (throwing random numbers out here) $1000 on a pair of headphones to listen to 320kbps files, rather than $200, listening to FLAC (deliberately ignoring the hi-res point here)...I'd having argued that the mastering of the song is the top.
Whilst I would agree that if mastered terribly it'll sound bad on whatever you listen with, that is different to the bitrate discussion, I assume where bigshot was going with the point is that it would be better to spend (throwing random numbers out here) $1000 on a pair of headphones to listen to 320kbps files, rather than $200, listening to FLAC (deliberately ignoring the hi-res point here)...
I'd having argued that the mastering of the song is the top.
320K MP3 is pretty good although I started ripping my CD's as FLAC at 16-bit with no compression. In reality my brain and ears won't be able to differentiate between the CD or mid-quality rendered MP3 however you don't know unless you try.
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Yes I am aware. Or was that just for clarification?
I was referring to Compression Size 0 which essentially means the codec does not try to reduce the file in size by rejecting only minimum of repeat detail AFAIK (around 50%).
Why don't you use maximum compression while encoding to FLAC ? It is a lossless format, you won't lose anything in terms of sound quality. Flac compression 0 or compression 8 both produce the exact same result once decoded and only differ in encoding time, cpu usage and of course resulting file size. The only reason not to use max compression ratio with flac or other lossless encoders is when you want to minimize cpu usage while playing, which is no concern on a full size computer but might be relevant on a portable player.