Re: Lossless audio books
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It is always possible to conduct the ideal listening test on the ideal equipment with audio files that accentuate the lossy parts of the codec, and it's also only really modern stuff that's good at being lossy anyway (the last 5-10 years say). Also if you're doing the listening tests yourself it is very hard to have a control group or blind the experiment.
Lossless codecs have their place, and in fact they honestly have lots of places, but these days the gap between a lossless codec and a higher bitrate lossy codec specifically in regards to listening tests has been closed to the point where blind people with amazingly expensive headphones in a quiet room are possibly the last group of people who could notice, and even then I am skeptical. Indeed, even in terms of absolute error from the original data, high bitrate lossy formats have also pretty effectively closed the gap as well these days. Not all the way or we'd call them lossless, but it's really pretty good.
Suffice it to say that if someone is trying to sell you on the idea of using a lossless format for all your music or something, you should be asking where the money is. Nothing is at all wrong with using a lossless format for your music, but usually when people are throwing that idea around there is some ulterior motive.
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