On Tuesday, 9 May 2017 at 02:13:19 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
On 05/08/2017 03:28 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote:
Uncompressed? Seriously? I assume that really means FLAC or
something rather than truly uncompressed, but even
still...sounds more like a bullet-list
pandering^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hselling point to the same
suckers^H^H^H^H^H^H^H"classy folk" who buy Monster-brand cables
for digital signals than a legit quality enhancement. Take a
top-of-the-line $$$$ audio system, set down a room full of
audiophiles, and compare lossless vs 320kbps Vorbis...in a true
double-blind, no WAY they'd be able to consistently spot the
difference even if they try. Let alone while being detracted by
all the fun of causing mass mayhem and carnage. Unless maybe
you just happen to stumble upon some kind of audio savant.
Don't need to go that high. c't did a double blind study some
years ago with the help of her sister magazine for audio
equipment. So they made a very good setup. What they discovered
is that mp3 with 160 kbit/s CBR was already undistinguishable
from CD for 99% of people for almost all kind of music. mp3 is
much better than its reputation, due to really bad encoders at
the beginning (Xing was awful and was the widest used at the
beginning, Fraunhofer was excellent but not free, lame took years
before it was any good) people thought that the crap they heard
was inherent to the mp3 format but very often it was bad
grabbing, over eager lo-pass filtering and crappy psycho-acoustic
models (Xing). So you make a good point that uncompressed audio
for a game is completely nuts.
