Whether you can tell or not depends on a lot of factors - a proper double-blind test on studio-quality equipment is required - but that's only part of the story.
The thing about a lossless storage medium is that you have a bit-accurate copy of the original. So if, in the future, you have better gear where you CAN tell the difference, or you want to try a replay technique, say, for generating surround from stereo and requires accurate phase relationships, etc, then if you have a lossless version of the content you will be fine, but with a lossy technique you won't. In addition, with a lossy technology you can rip things like DTS CDs and decode them on playback: this requires end-to-end bit-accuracy. The purpose of a perceptual (lossy) coding technique is to save space/bandwidth by removing things you can't hear. But "things you can't hear" depends on a lot of factors. By all means make lossy copies for the portable stereo, etc, where space is really important and you are after portability and convenience rather than quality, but, I would suggest, make sure you have a lossless original somewhere - the CD or a lossless rip - because one day you might just need it. --Richard E -- relen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ relen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23701 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
