Nonreality;330886 Wrote: > To me it seems that the mastering, the recording brings out these things > more than whether it is a 320mp3 or a Flac file.
It's not just you. This is a very important point that's often lost in the noise of format arguments. The best any digital format, lossy or lossless, can hope to do is to sound exactly like the source material (typically the CD). There are a lot of things in the recording, mixing, and mastering processes which can and do alter the sound much more significantly than lossy encoding would. In that sense it's already lossy when it's on the CD. Lossy encoding just potentially shaves a little more sound quality off something that's typically been hacked at pretty significantly. The whole vinyl/SACD/DVD-A/HDCD argument is mostly about these other much more significant factors, seasoned with just a dash of snake oil for zip. But, since this is the audiophile forum, it's not a question of relative significance. Lossy encoding is a compromise that the listener simply doesn't have to make, so why do it? -- CatBus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51021 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
