I had gone awhile without buying any albums on cd. Icky Thump by the White Stripes came out, I downloaded it and had been jamming it in the car every day.
I took a friend out shopping and seen a copy and thought, “You know what? I want the album art.”
I took my burned cd out of the player and put the actual release on there.
Exactly. Speakers make the difference. My car audio has a better range then my home setup. I haven’t gotten a subwoofer for my home. But the same songs from my phone sound a million times better in my car than on my home audio setup. Great speakers with a cheap head unit will sound better than the most expensive unit using cheap crappy speakers.
It’s the same with movies. The difference between Netflix and a Blu-ray with Dolby TrueHD or DTS-MA is night and day on a half decent home theatre setup. On TV speakers you’d likely hear no difference at all.
It completely depends. 320kbps CBR or V0 VBR should be audibly transparent under just about all conceivable circumstances, and that’s still a fraction of the size of a typical lossless FLAC. Under the vast majority of conditions (humans, gear, audio and listening environment) you can safely get away with lower bitrate with no ability to reliably tell the difference in a double-blind test. You don’t collect lossless audio for audio quality during normal playback, you collect it for archival correctness (and because space is cheap).
My personal library weighs in at 476GB currently, so please don’t mistake me for a FLAC hater.
I have my music collection sitting as FLACs on my Multimedia PC, connected to my stereo System. I also have a service running that mirrors my music collection by converting it to m4a files and automaticly sends it over to my phone once it connects to my home wifi. I have set up the conversion (qaac64) so the difference between a flac and the m4a file is unnoticable over my bluetooth buds (playing the m4a from my phone).
While I cant hear the difference on my phone, I definiley can hear a difference on my stereo / hifi headphones
The bigger issue is that if you decide to convert to whatever new lossy format might become popular in the future, it will be worse to convert from lossy to lossy than from FLAC to lossy.
I use FLAC to archive my CDs and convert to mp3 to listen to them on my phone, in my car, etc.
Part of whether you can tell a difference depends on your setup. If you have average gear, it would only make a minor difference. Also depends how much you care about how things sound. Most people don’t give much of a shit if things are muddy or clear.
I don’t really notice a difference it just takes up storage
You’d probably notice it with better audio gear.
Absolutely.
I had gone awhile without buying any albums on cd. Icky Thump by the White Stripes came out, I downloaded it and had been jamming it in the car every day.
I took a friend out shopping and seen a copy and thought, “You know what? I want the album art.”
I took my burned cd out of the player and put the actual release on there.
“Boodoodwiddle dah boom boom boom boom boom boom boom, bah dah bow!!!”
I couldn’t believe how powerful it sounded.
I only fucked with flac after that.
You need to do spectral analysis too to see if it’s not upscale from 320bit
Exactly. Speakers make the difference. My car audio has a better range then my home setup. I haven’t gotten a subwoofer for my home. But the same songs from my phone sound a million times better in my car than on my home audio setup. Great speakers with a cheap head unit will sound better than the most expensive unit using cheap crappy speakers.
Yeah, bass suffers a lot.
It’s the same with movies. The difference between Netflix and a Blu-ray with Dolby TrueHD or DTS-MA is night and day on a half decent home theatre setup. On TV speakers you’d likely hear no difference at all.
It completely depends. 320kbps CBR or V0 VBR should be audibly transparent under just about all conceivable circumstances, and that’s still a fraction of the size of a typical lossless FLAC. Under the vast majority of conditions (humans, gear, audio and listening environment) you can safely get away with lower bitrate with no ability to reliably tell the difference in a double-blind test. You don’t collect lossless audio for audio quality during normal playback, you collect it for archival correctness (and because space is cheap).
My personal library weighs in at 476GB currently, so please don’t mistake me for a FLAC hater.
I’m not going to pretend I can hear the difference, but I have plenty of storage so I don’t care. I like having the best version available
I have my music collection sitting as FLACs on my Multimedia PC, connected to my stereo System. I also have a service running that mirrors my music collection by converting it to m4a files and automaticly sends it over to my phone once it connects to my home wifi. I have set up the conversion (qaac64) so the difference between a flac and the m4a file is unnoticable over my bluetooth buds (playing the m4a from my phone).
While I cant hear the difference on my phone, I definiley can hear a difference on my stereo / hifi headphones
Depending on the Bluetooth code flac is indeed not needed.
Something like mp3 happens before it goes over the air unless you have higher codes like ldac
Or SBC-XQ
The bigger issue is that if you decide to convert to whatever new lossy format might become popular in the future, it will be worse to convert from lossy to lossy than from FLAC to lossy.
I use FLAC to archive my CDs and convert to mp3 to listen to them on my phone, in my car, etc.
Part of whether you can tell a difference depends on your setup. If you have average gear, it would only make a minor difference. Also depends how much you care about how things sound. Most people don’t give much of a shit if things are muddy or clear.