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That test proves my point -- MP3 even at 320k has only 32db S/N ratio! That's horrible. Means it's dropping S/N ratio from CD by as much as 60db!That makes a MUCH bigger difference than a few db of noise in the bass.
Hard drives are cheap |
A lot of my favorite music isnt worthy of FLAC, like NMH |
Originally Posted by Filburt Regarding his AAC "results", if I were to guess, I'd say all that happened with the high bitrate AAC samples he had was that those profiles probably tell the codec to drop the threshold in quiet to the floor (so -120db in this case) and drop the masking threshold as well (thereby keeping information that may have otherwise been detected as masked). That doesn't necessarily translate to higher subjective quality. In fact, it may actually sound worse since there are bits being wasted on what is very likely totally inaudible instead of going towards what is. In other words, don't base your codec selection on that page. |
Originally Posted by Helter Skelter These days I rip to FLAC (using EAC) almost exclusively. I convert from that to Ogg at q7 for use on my laptop and Karma. |
Originally Posted by james__bean Hard drives are cheap, just keep everything in FLAC |