yepimonfire
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above 256kbps mp3 sound the same as a lossless file. as ive stated before you will never hear a difference even with the best phones on the planet.
You know, I've said this before but all this is just a rehash of the debate about Minidisc and ATRAC from 15 years ago. Once ATRAC reached a certain level of refinement it was effectively transparent even to hi-fi reviewers, and most admitted it, but because it was a compression system the Golden Ears were just not going to have it and Minidisc slowly died, or is dying. One of the best formats of all time, but that idea that information was being discarded just kept seeping back into some people's brains. Eventually Sony came out with Hi-MD, a lossless system, which of course sounded exactly the same, but by then it was too late. And now we're going through it all again, and it wouldn't matter how many ABX tests proved conclusively that the discarded information was inaudible some people will still insist on lossless and will still lobby the powers that be until all downloads are lossless, however incompatable it is with everyday equipment (see post above). Sheesh....
above 256kbps mp3 sound the same as a lossless file. as ive stated before you will never hear a difference even with the best phones on the planet.
whats the difference between 320 mp3 and wav? also is wav from CD's or Vinyls?
whats the difference between 320 mp3 and wav? also is wav from CD's or Vinyls?
FWIW I did an ABX test in Foobar and couldn't tell the difference between FLAC and a re-encoded 320kbps MP3 file through my ESI Juli@ -> SRS2050A system. The Stax have better detail resolution than most dynamics in the <$500 range so I guess my ears can't tell the difference. I'll continue to re-encode my music library to 320kbps, then.
wav's are not usually compressed. mp3s always are.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV
"Though a WAV file can hold compressed audio, the most common WAV format contains uncompressed audio in the linear pulse code modulation (LPCM) format. The standard audio file format for CDs, for example, is LPCM-encoded, containing two channels of 44,100 samples per second, 16 bits per sample. Since LPCM uses an uncompressed storage method which keeps all the samples of an audio track, professional users or audio experts may use the WAV format for maximum audio quality."
you sir, are an idiot. science trumps foolish unfounded claims all the time.