As the title says, is hires lossless the new standard that records brought us? CD wasn’t the same. Always sounded lifeless
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St Joseph, MI
My first thought was "Is lossless a pinball username, what was he hired for, and who was the previous record holder?"
Hi-res, got it.
Yes.
What does boob think about it?
I hear he knows how to play an instrument. The spoons I think is his go to.
Human ears can’t tell the difference between hi-res and AAC. And you only get hires with a fully wired connection, using an external DAC, even the Apple dongle thing limits its output, negating the effect. if you are using Bluetooth anywhere in the chain, it compresses the signal so you lose any (imperceptible anyway) benefits. So yeah, it’s not worth it. On paper/in the data, pretty awesome. Real world? Waste of $$
I am somehow reminded of the 70's audiophile mag reviews that touted a particular amp/turntable/speaker/whatever as having .001% distortion, whereas the "lesser" models had .002% distortion, as if _anyone_ could actually hear the difference.
Quoted from Trekkie1978:What does boob think about it?
I hear he knows how to play an instrument. The spoons I think is his go to.
I thought is was some sort of flute?
I doubt theres any difference, although I'm sure golden ear audiophile clowns will claim they can tell a difference (they can't). Then again, most of those golden ear types shy away from most things digital. No, hi-res lossless is just a way to keep bumping up the already topped out "sound quality" market to get a couple more nickels out of the pants of suckers.
Quoted from JWJr:I am somehow reminded of the 70's audiophile mag reviews that touted a particular amp/turntable/speaker/whatever as having .001% distortion, whereas the "lesser" models had .002% distortion, as if anyone_ could actually hear the difference.
That’s still a thing, and still absolutely no one can actually tell the difference. I’ve had discussions with people where they don’t understand the difference between audio compression (squeezing the actual audio wave so there is less dynamic range), and digital/data compression, where the data is squeezed to take up less space by using mathematical replacement (any audio pretty much, including lossless) or complete removal of sounds we can not hear (mp3, etc). Both types of compression occur in most audio systems.
Even vinyl (kind of accidentally) compresses the audio a bit
Quoted from poppapin:I thought is was some sort of flute?
A big black flute?
Quoted from Rdoyle1978:That’s still a thing, and still absolutely no one can actually tell the difference. I’ve had discussions with people where they don’t understand the difference between audio compression (squeezing the actual audio wave so there is less dynamic range), and digital/data compression, where the data is squeezed to take up less space by using mathematical replacement (any audio pretty much, including lossless) or complete removal of sounds we can not hear (mp3, etc). Both types of compression occur in most audio systems.
Even vinyl (kind of accidentally) compresses the audio a bit
That’s actually a great analogy for how vinyl works.
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