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Can you hear the difference between 320 kbit/s mp3 and lossless formats?
by grecht 5y ago
Can you hear the difference between 320 kbit/s mp3 and lossless formats?
- mhh__ 5y agoEven if I could I genuinely don't care.
- tpetry 5y agoAnd more specific: with car audio and on a busy road
- xmodem 5y agoNope, but storage is so cheap who cares? might as well keep the lossless
- meshenna 5y agoI can't even hear the difference between 128 and 320 :|
- 1_player 5y agoI read somewhere that younger people (I guess Millenials that grew up with Napster) might prefer 128kbps to lossless in blind audio tests because it sound better to them — artifacts and all — as it's what they are used to. Anyone has the source for this?
- BuildTheRobots 5y agoProbably not in a car, but playing back 320kbit MP3s on a large sound system (eg djing in a club) is noticeably different to lossless or even to better lossless formats.
- ferongr 5y agoPost your ABX logs.
- m463 5y agooh probably not. (Maybe lower bitrates, especially when you're just stopped sitting in the car charging on a trip). The comparison should really be usb vs phone+bluetooth, the radio and streaming. A USB flash drive is: bigger, holds the music you want to play, skips and seeks instantly, and "theoretically" can be organized how you like it. I say "theoretically" because there are plenty of other bugs with tag grouping and sorting that disorganize your music for you. I just wrote a python script to retag all my music. As to FLAC/Apple Lossless - it's nice not to have to resample the music too.