Noticing Lossless quality.

[vuzedome]

Of course noticing lossless quality will depend on what kind of music you listen to, and particularly the year or era.
Then one needs to read about the loudness wars issue, and the other criticisms on the modern mainstream music production.

[metro.]

Noise producers are lol. The fact it's creeping into other genres is even more lol.

[bloody000]

Loudness and dynamic range? Do people REALLY care about them?
Anime audio tracks and anime music have piss poor production value(i.e. quality) and some people still insist on encoding them in flac.

[kitamesume]

DR in anime track does have meaning, it gives it depth and direction, without it 5.1 or 7.1 would've been all over anime encodes which is even way worse than stereo since it bloats up filesize like theres no tomorrow.

edit: on second thought, a completely flat DR would make a "whisper" and a "shout" sound the same, plus irrelevant bgm would pretty much overpower speech or other sounds since they're equally loud.

[bloody000]

DR in anime track does have meaning, it gives it depth and direction, without it 5.1 or 7.1 would've been all over anime encodes which is even way worse than stereo since it bloats up filesize like theres no tomorrow.

edit: on second thought, a completely flat DR would make a "whisper" and a "shout" sound the same, plus irrelevant bgm would pretty much overpower speech or other sounds since they're equally loud.

you just described what's wrong with most animes.

[kitamesume]

DR in anime track does have meaning, it gives it depth and direction, without it 5.1 or 7.1 would've been all over anime encodes which is even way worse than stereo since it bloats up filesize like theres no tomorrow.

edit: on second thought, a completely flat DR would make a "whisper" and a "shout" sound the same, plus irrelevant bgm would pretty much overpower speech or other sounds since they're equally loud.

you just described what's wrong with most animes.

which part? the abundant multi-channel or the lack of DR?

[vuzedome]

More like the problem with encodes.
If everyone stuck to AAC then it would've been fine, FLAC is the bane of multi-channel encoding.

[megido-rev.M]

Wait, what are guys arguing over?

[bloody000]

Kitamesume: Most animes have crappy(by cinematic standard) audio right from the studio anyway, I don't see the point of surround or even lossless surround. High production value anime movies are the exceptions, of course.

[kitamesume]

which anime audio? the voicing or the bgm? the bgm has two sources, either a recorded copy or CG. the former sometimes are from real orchestra recordings.
although surround does seem pointless on animes, lossless stereo does have it's uses(not 24bit flac though, thats overkill) like how it works wonders on Nodame Candabile (no im not talking about Nodame-chan's avatar).