Re: Lossless audio books

2020-05-07 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : enes via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Lossless audio books Oh and one reason the new audible format sounds much better is the sampling rate was only 22550 khz for the old recordings, and it was raised to 44.1 khz, which results in a noticable increase in sound quality almost anyone would notice. URL: https

Re: Lossless audio books

2020-05-06 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : camlorn via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Lossless audio books @4It is always possible to conduct the ideal listening test on the ideal equipment with audio files that accentuate the lossy parts of the codec, and it's also only really modern stuff that's good at being lossy anyway (the last 5-10 years say).  Also if you're

Re: Lossless audio books

2020-05-06 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : an idiot via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Lossless audio books Yep. They switched to higher quallity like a year ago. The new quallity sounds about 5 times better then what they had before. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/526427/#p526427 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

Re: Lossless audio books

2020-05-06 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : enes via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Lossless audio books audible recently switched to 128 kbps, which gives a really dramatic quality difference. And  I disagree about lossess. There is definately a difference when listening on high end equipment, and I think audiobooks with music and sound effects should be played

Re: Lossless audio books

2020-05-06 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Chris via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Lossless audio books Audible doesn't sound too bad if you set it to enhanced quality. It may be compressed MP3 or AAC, but it sounds fine as far as I'm concerned. I'm not an audio snob, but at the same time I don't want really crummy low quality audio. URL: https

Re: Lossless audio books

2020-05-06 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : camlorn via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Lossless audio books I think, as someone who has written 3 audio libraries, that lossless audio is really not a big deal at all because the best lossy formats are audibly as good while still saving you 3x or 4x the space in the worst case (but usually more), and that probably

Lossless audio books

2020-05-06 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : datajake1999 via Audiogames-reflector
Lossless audio books Hi,I have been listening to audio books from Audible and CDS that I have ripped to FLAC, and in many cases I noticed that books on CD sound much clearer than on Audible. This is especially true if their are sound effects and music in the production.I am wondering, has