opaqueice;179085 Wrote: > I haven't experimented that much because I don't see any good reason not > to use lossless files for the SB. I did play with 192 VBR when I was > deciding which format to use with my ipod and found it hard to > distinguish from FLAC (so that's what I decided to use). My sound card > really is pretty crappy - for example there's a high noise floor that > depends quite a bit on what the computer is doing - but I'd be > surprised if anyone can tell, say, 256 or 320 kbs MP3 from lossless, on > a normal musical selection.
It's pointless to compare one lossless bitrate to another as they might just be equally bad. I had no problem at all hearing a difference between 224kbit AAC and 320kbit AAC, and lossless. All this on my iPod nano. This was with piano and symphony orchestra (some Mozart). My point was that there is something missing in the reasoning if one claims that lossy compression can be indistinguishable, but fail to tell at what bitrate, and with what encoder/decoder. -- P Floding No, I didn't ABX it. And I won't even if you ask me. (Especially not if you ask me.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32576 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
