jeycam
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Hey,
I've started the discussion in my iMac connection thread, but I thought it is worth of the separate thread. I'm currently a PC user, wanting to switch to a Mac. As OS X is more comfortable and estethical, I thought there wouldn't be a problem with the swap. But there is one - almost everybody on a Mac uses iTunes (so would I) which is simply the best player on the OS X. iTunes has its own lossless format, so I thought I'd just convert all my FLAC library into ALAC and use them. The thing is that I've already spent few hours today on comparing an ALAC, FLAC, wave and mp3 320kbps in a blind, ABX test. My current rig is a Beresford TC-7520 DAC, connected via USB to the PC using foobar2k. My headphones are Creative Aurvana Live! (a.k.a. Denon D1000) which aren't very detailed or picky headphones, but well... I hear the noticeable difference between FLAC and ALAC - the FLAC highs are more detailed which is really easy to notice. On the other hand, I'd say there is none difference between FLAC and wave and also - between ALAC and mp3 320kbps. Are that much differences between so colled LOSSLESS formats even possible? Why is that so?
I've started the discussion in my iMac connection thread, but I thought it is worth of the separate thread. I'm currently a PC user, wanting to switch to a Mac. As OS X is more comfortable and estethical, I thought there wouldn't be a problem with the swap. But there is one - almost everybody on a Mac uses iTunes (so would I) which is simply the best player on the OS X. iTunes has its own lossless format, so I thought I'd just convert all my FLAC library into ALAC and use them. The thing is that I've already spent few hours today on comparing an ALAC, FLAC, wave and mp3 320kbps in a blind, ABX test. My current rig is a Beresford TC-7520 DAC, connected via USB to the PC using foobar2k. My headphones are Creative Aurvana Live! (a.k.a. Denon D1000) which aren't very detailed or picky headphones, but well... I hear the noticeable difference between FLAC and ALAC - the FLAC highs are more detailed which is really easy to notice. On the other hand, I'd say there is none difference between FLAC and wave and also - between ALAC and mp3 320kbps. Are that much differences between so colled LOSSLESS formats even possible? Why is that so?