I wonder what kind of digital equipment they are playing things through where it doesn't sound transparent the way his LPs do.

Bluetooth must just suck cause I swear I can tell a difference in the sound between files over Bluetooth and ones over a wired connection (both sources being the exact same FLAC file).

I really like Opus but there are just so few players that support it. Besides, I have space for FLAC on my portables anyway.

My FiiO M6 doesn't support Opus. I mainly just convert everything to 256k Apple AAC which I cannot distinguish from lossless on it anyway.

I won't lie. I really like the sound on some modern CD remasters despite how some people feel about them. I think now that the loudness wars thing has kind of cooled off, brickwalling isn't as bad as it used to be. For example, a few I really like are Cream/Eric Clapton, Rolling Stones...

Interesting... They must have upgraded the DAC in the iPod Touch 7G because my 6G fails to sync 24/96 ALAC files. On a side note, I can't imagine why I'd need 24/96 files since it's beyond the height of my hearing and in AIFF would take up a ridiculous amount of space.

Have you done any listening tests using their AAC encoder (Fraunhofer FDK-AAC)? I didn't think it sounded as good as the iTunes one at the lower bitrates and I have to wonder if it has some kind of low-pass filtering going on. At the highest VBR setting (-m5) it says they don't do that, but I...

When you say Fraunhofer are you talking about their AAC or MP3 encoder? I understood that generally AAC is more efficient than any MP3 encoder.

I ran some listening tests awhile back on a much higher quality setup than what I own. I took an album I knew well and made a WAV file then from that WAV file I created several MP3 files with LAME (320, -V0, -V2, -V4 and -V5) and several AAC versions with iTunes (256, 192, 128, 96). My...

No, the maximum that will sync is 24/48. 24/96 will fail to sync.

The iPod Touch doesn't support FLAC natively in its "Music" app. It supports it through the "Files" app or something. Otherwise there have always been third-party apps which could be installed to play it.

I believe the maximum that will sync onto iPod Touch is 48kHz/24-bit as Apple Lossless and I believe they are downsampled to 16-bit on playback.

I don't see the point you're trying to make here. And with storage space that keeps on increasing, why shouldn't I just use lossless or MP3/AAC above 192kbps? For what it's worth, I have never used Winamp AAC. I have always used either Apple AAC or FDK AAC (when I needed AAC) or just LAME...

That's not surprising since it's a more efficient codec. I just do not see the point of using Ogg Vorbis when LAME MP3 or Apple AAC do perfectly fine at the bitrates I'm using.

I think they can be useful. But yes, ultimately they cannot determine if something sounds good or not.