[Young Spade]

Its taking up too much space and I was wondering if they would sound about the same quality?

 

[Brian loves music]

i believe the conclusion from a previous thread comparing FLAC (lossless) to 320 was that the sound needed to be deafingly loud for there to be any physical difference from the get-go not to mention how hard it is to tell the diff

so probably not

 

[G-man]

1 - Wrong section.

2 - THERE ARE A MILLION SUCH THREADS. SEARCH!!!!!!

 

[G-man]

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Originally Posted by Brian loves music /img/forum/go_quote.gif i believe the conclusion from a previous thread comparing FLAC (lossless) to 320 was that the sound needed to be deafingly loud for there to be any physical difference from the get-go not to mention how hard it is to tell the diff so probably not

true, but only on low end systems. and even then, i can hear the difference on my 20 pound headphones. and that was on a blind test. twice. and i have crappy hearing with tinnitus.

 

[DavidMahler]

Hey there......it is my belief that they do sound identical to most ears. However, my theory is this, store you music lossless..........on an external hard-drive, and then convert the music to the smallest bit rate you can hear as transparent.......


Believe it or not, I find 160 Kbps VBR AAC to be transparent

 

[Young Spade]

Ok, thanks and yea it already is on a portable hard drive. I am using it mainly on a iPod so storage is kind of a problem, that is why I asked. But sorry for wrong area, didn't know where else to put.

 

[G-man]

if you search you will see. stop continuing this thread and read the 100+ pages of the same comments again and again and again and again

 

[krmathis]

Only you can tell if they sound the same. As it differ between person, gear, music, encoder, and more.
But the general opinion are that a well encoded MP3 file (using latest stable LAME) at ~192kbps or higher tend to be transparent for most music/people.

Apple Lossless is the safe bet though, since its lossless. Then you don't have to worry if there are an audible loss or not, like you would with MP3.

 

[tufnelto11]

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