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Which format is better?
Tatsujin:
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--- Quote from: Clannad_92 on April 27, 2012, 03:30:26 PM ---so FLAC is good bcause it preserve sound quality?
Interesting...thank s all...
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Yes. If you have some good or high-end speakers - on the plus side, for maximum sound quality, you want a good sound card and real speaker cables for pure quality - and to notice the real difference between lossless vs. lossy. If you got some shit speakers/audio-output/cables then you can go with MP3 or Vorbis.
--- Quote from: kitamesume on April 28, 2012, 12:35:37 AM ---1) MP3 - most, if not all, affordable portable players supports it. small in size so you could put a whole lot of songs on the player, quality is still great since i doubt you'd be bringing a 500$ headpiece with you.
problems : lossy format. thats it.
2) FLAC - lossless, not as large as wav. good for archives and occasional listening if you want pure quality.
problems : pretty big in size. not every songs has a flac version available. theres only a few portable player that supports flac. needs a really good headpiece and soundcard to be appreciated.
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^ What this person said.
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tatsu speaker wire has been proven to make very little difference, they have taken tons of audiophiles and played music over the "nicest" speaker wire money could buy and over the same speakers with clothes hangars and people couldnt tell the difference.
Just getting decent speaker wire that isnt the thin as fuck shit that comes in like HTiB is all you need
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Yea, that's why I mentioned good or high-end speakers. :P You get what you spend on.
AceD:
For music....320kbps MP3, its highly compatible and sounds great. I cannot tell any difference between that and flac....and in all likeliness anybody who says they can is full of shit.
halfelite:
--- Quote from: AceD on April 28, 2012, 06:14:14 PM ---For music....320kbps MP3, its highly compatible and sounds great. I cannot tell any difference between that and flac....and in all likeliness anybody who says they can is full of shit.
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It depends what you are listening to, if its 2 channel stuff I can tell a difference on very few songs. But when you start getting into multi channel music is where flac shines. But I also Have a decent Home theater setup. For normal stuff I stick to mp3 as most of the listening I do in my car or over my sonos system, For multi-channel releases I go flac.
The difference between flac and mp3 is subtle kinda like when you listen to a song on decent headphones and notice that small cymbal in the background for the first time.
320kbps mp3 and flac I would be hard press to tell any difference. 192kbps mp3 and flac I can tell the difference.
kitamesume:
^pretty much thats the most difference between MP3 and FLAC XD
oh yea, sometimes you'd hear the singers breathing heavily on the FLAC records when you only hear muffled noise in the MP3.
kamuixtv99:
Have you heard of SHM-CD and Blu-Spec CD? There's a reasonable amount of improvement.
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/popular_formats/SHM-CD/index.html
FLAC have preserved the quality of these discs and they are indeed better than regular CDs. I did convert them to 320kbps MP3, the result was...it's only good for head/ear phones. Too bad its momentum of this 2 formats is too slow and mostly available in Japan.
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