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In Reply to: RE: Such a warm more blissful difference between mp3 and FLAC CONTAINERS posted by bullethead on July 25, 2015 at 04:17:09
I might be the only person on AA who prefers listening to 320kbps MP3 over FLAC decoded in real time....... Sure MP3 loses a smidgen of resolution, but some of the time-domain distortions in FLAC playback are kind of creepy...... Most notably the attenuation in vibrato or inflections....
I was at someone's house, he was playing an Ella Fitzgerald tune on a an expensive server.... I still noticed the attenuation of vibrato in her voice, compared to how I normally hear it. The problem seems to occur regardless of the type of playback source used.
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... that's a non-starter, if one's main objective is ultimate sound quality.
Especially if we're talking locally stored music, and not streaming services, where FLAC format is how it's being served real-time.
Couple more thoughts:
- Storage is incredibly cheap these days, so there's no reason to store music compressed, as FLAC or otherwise;
- If someone hears no difference between playing WAV and real-time decoded (on the renderer - not server!) FLAC, it's time to start looking what's wrong with one's system, or possibly hearing. Decoding to WAV on the server, prior to being sent to rendering appliance, is a different matter.
Yes, Todd. . . I have no doubt that you are! ;-)
I've purchased more than one download where the sound samples in MP3 had better quality than the full resolution download. The problem was harshness that was eliminated by the MP3 encoding. There are other recordings where the only way to improve the sound quality is to activate the OFF switch. Fortunately, I don't have many of these duds.:-)
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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