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I've been caught in the spam filter! If you can't see your post in, you may have been caught in the spam filter. And we'll have a look. I'm aware of the fact that most people can't tell the difference, and I'm even very willing to admit that most of the time, I can't either.
Part of it is psychosomatic, I'm sure. If I know something's encoded at 256kbps mp3, it doesn't sound that great to me, even if I can't hear any artifacts. There's also the argument that I'm literally doing a full back up of my CDs. I own 150 classical albums. There are a few recordings, however, where I can DEFINITELY tell the difference. I wouldn't have thought solo piano music would be easy to differentiate, but I listened to my recording of Barenboim playing Mendelssohn's Lieder ohne Worte in both lossless and lossy formats, and I could definitely tell the difference.
How about you guys? Doesn't matter?
Hmm, I don't ever really listen to it these days, but I like some pop music (David Bowie, Brazilian Girls), some progressive stuff (Alan Parson's Project, A Perfect Circle), Psy/goa-trance (Infected Mushroom, Shpongle), and (shameless repping of my friends' band) to name a few. The only 'pop' albums I own are Zero 7, Cake, and Radiohead. Nonclassical makes up about 4% of my music. I'm not against other music, I'm just super picky. Edit: I also have an album of Bela Fleck playing transcriptions, which I guess is somewhere between pop and classical and bluegrass. I save my music in FLAC, store it in, and play it with a.
It's annoying that FLAC is not supported by many mobile players and by iTunes, but anyway. We once made a blind test where we compared 160KBit joint vs.
Split stereo, we played songs by Schubert, I think Jessye Norman was singing. It was easy to tell which was which. In voices, piano and drums the artifacts are relatively easy to spot. In the case of voices that's probably because we know the sound of the human voice very well. I play piano, so I know how that sounds, too.
Percussion and in general any events with a quick onset, seem to be particularly hard for lossy codecs. They make 'Bam' sound like 'Wam'; perhaps the information density reaches peaks there.
However, I must admit that above 256KBits the difference between FLAC and a lossy codec is hard to hear and at these rates lossy compression certainly doesn't spoil the fun. Many people think that MP3 et al. Necessarily sound bad, but the reason for that perception is probably that most MP3 players are crappy. On a very good player even 128Kbit MP3s can be fun although you certainly hear artifacts.
It's similar to listening to a very good record player: the sizzle is still there but the music sounds great. Has anybody experience with high-res lossless formats?
24bit / 96Khz stuff? I had very high expectations but must say it doesn't add anything. Is it just me?