jimmyfergus;189257 Wrote: > I have to correct myself here in my mp3 vs FLAC tangent-upon-a-tangent > on this thread. > > What I actually used was "lame --alt-preset extreme", which is supposed > to be equivalent to -V0. However, I also used a version of lame that is > not current (3.91). I downloaded the latest (3.97) and the "-V0 > --vbr-new" setting gave me something -far- superior. I only managed a > _very_ brief listen, and the differences between this, "-b 320", and > the FLAC were *not* stand-out obvious. I have to give it a proper > listen later. > > The previous VBR encoding had sections as low as ~128kbps.
In the end it just goes to show that lossy is not to be trusted to sound indistinguishable from lossless. I'd never archive material for the future in a lossy format. (Unless originally recorded as such, of course.) -- 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=33112 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
