• Chee_Koala@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Thx, this was an easy way to test this out! Pretty much confirmed what I already thought I knew. The nice booming base in Dark Horse threw me off :-) but I managed to get 5/6 correct. Listened with UMC404HD powering my ATH-M50x, which makes its literally HUNDREDS of dollars of equipment. When I power those headphones off my phone via apple DAC, I don’t think it would be audible. How did you do on this test?

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      1 year ago

      Maybe. I’ll give it a shot later…

      All’s I know is I’ve been slowly replacing my 320 mp3 catalog with flac and certain albums are night and day difference. Usually ones with a lot going on. Try comparing wintersun - time in mp3 vs flac. The instrument separation is way better

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        1 year ago

        There could be a metric fuckton of reasons why the file on your computer and the file you downloaded from a store sound different, but the codec most definitely is not one of them, assuming they are good first gen lossy encodes.

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        1 year ago

        Maybe. I’ll give it a shot later…

        This dude is scared that he’ll find that he can’t tell the different between high and low bitrate and completely invalidate his reason for storing FLACs.