everyone keeps saying they can easily hear the difference between 128 kbps and lossless but as soon as someone asks for proof they either fail the test or refuses to post the resulthttp://abx.digitalfeed.net/lame.128.htmlim not saying no one can pass the test but the same person who confidently says "you have shit ears" or "you have a shit setup" is the same person who cannot hear the difference when they try it themselves
i download flac because the spectrograms look cooler than mp3
you have shit ears
why even bother listening to music if you don't want to hear all of the sounds?
>>118315736Describe the difference. It should be pretty easy. I know what bad encoding sounds like but I contest that almost anyone on the entirety of /mu/ could reliably hear the difference between a modern LAME mp3 and lossless.
>>118315696>>118315763im not even advocating for mp3. most of my library IS flacim just bothered by the ignorance and hypocrispy of the average /mu/er
i download flac and encode into V0 mp3 even tho i cant tell the difference between flac and V5 mp3. killer samples are scary and i have enough space so i just listen to V0
>>118315802it depends on the music and how well it's produced but generally you can hear the audio compressionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhM2yxqDj9Qwhenever my streaming quality settings get nuked on spotify, I can tell right away by listening to this, the tempo drifts during some of the kicks and it actually affects how the tail end of the kicks are compresseddataplex by ryoji ikeda is another good example of something that is blatantly obvious when comparing lossless and something as low as 128 kbps
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>>118314666Eagles was trivial. Classic "underwater" noise on that opening cymbal hit. Killers and Daft Punk were very challenging. Other two were pretty much just guessing. I'm well above average age for 4chan.
>>118320297And if anyone else wants to try this, for The Killers and Daft Punk, I was mostly listening to the sharpness of the drum transients.
>>118315736Spbp
Didn't have time for the whole thing, but got 100% on the killers. They just sound "different". With my shitty setup I couldn't tell you which one sounds better, but they do sound remarkably different.
>>118314666It's very easy to tell unless you're a retard the obvious way even for earlets is to listen to the cymbals
>>118319955>>118326176>>118326634least retarded /mu/ poster
Literally placebo effect
>>118319955Can't tell if retarded, just badly worded, or rotational velocidensity trolling. You understand that there's a difference between dynamic level compression of audio, and file compression right? File compression should have zero effect on reliability of tempo or the perception of dynamic level compression on the tail end of a kick.
>>118322731i got 80% correct on those.
>>118314666I don't even listen to lossless music
128 is such a retarded bitrate to choose for something like this. Basically nobody thinks it's transparent to lossless and mp3s can be transparent. V2 VBR is probably good enough.
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