SteveC;163396 Wrote: > Yes. I thought so too until recently. I have happily ripped 16000 tracks > in 320 kbps MP3 and now I accidentally discovered that a few quiet piano > tracks have artefacts that are easily audible, such as burbling hiss > background, once I am clued in. Damn!! > > So I set up a playlist consisting of Glenn Gould Bach Goldberg > recording from 1981, just track 1, encoded either as 320 kbps mp3, or > FLAC. The encoding is not obvious from the track name. I simply give > the remote to someone, show them how to flip between the two, and ask > them to play them until they are happy that one sounds better. > Meanwhile, I live the room. > > So far 3/3 can 100% detect the difference, mainly due to the hiss, but > we also suspect that piano sound is slightly affected in the harmonics. > But I can't really live with this extra hiss on certain recordings, so > I'm faced with selective re-ripping, maybe of all the classical.
Steve C, It doesn't surprise me you heard a dif, But we were talking about Apple Lossless (ALAC) compared to FLAC, Those 2 should sound identical. They should be bit identical. The 320kbps mp3 is a lossy format . It sould be inferior whether it's AAC or mp3. AAC is not Apple Lossless, that's ALAC -- tomjtx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tomjtx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7449 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30325 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
