No wonder that audiophiles say that streamed/downloaded music sounds worse. The fiber-optic cables aren't gold plated for maximum light conductivity.
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@phnt analog sounds better yes
I bet they have oxygen in them
@phnt Audiophiles are the media equivalent of sommeliers, and equally full of shit.
@phnt don't forget about the diamond oscillator
@JulioReich @phnt audiophiles can hear the difference between C memory allocators used in their music players.
@JulioReich Wasn't it like 2 years ago when some wine producer in France decided to submit some cheap boxed wine for a prestigious competition and won?
@EdBoatConnoisseur @JulioReich True and even the network cable matters.
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@phnt @JulioReich man i need the link to the original post for that nonse, i need to laugh at that shit!
@EdBoatConnoisseur @JulioReich @phnt Audiophiles apparently had a very funny melt down when they found out that their expansive reel-to-reel analog tapes were digitally mastered.
@coolboymew @phnt @JulioReich audiophiles man, they are a meme.
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There seems to be a lot of misconceptions in the music community regarding the differences between 320kbps mp3 and FLAC format. It is true that 320kbps is technically as good as FLAC, but there are other reasons to get music in a lossless format.
Hearing the difference now isn’t the reason to encode to FLAC. FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is ‘lossy’. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA – it’s about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don’t want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.
I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrange…well don’t get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they weren’t stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, you’ll be glad you did.
There seems to be a lot of misconceptions in the music community regarding the differences between 320kbps mp3 and FLAC format. It is true that 320kbps is technically as good as FLAC, but there are other reasons to get music in a lossless format.
Hearing the difference now isn’t the reason to encode to FLAC. FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is ‘lossy’. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA – it’s about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don’t want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.
I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrange…well don’t get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they weren’t stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, you’ll be glad you did.
@phnt @EdBoatConnoisseur @JulioReich damn I wonder how arch linux sends me all those binaries when my system updates if my plebian cables corrupt the data, the loss correction on the binaries must be really strong
@phnt @EdBoatConnoisseur @JulioReich ONLY THE ANALOG SIGNAL PATH AFFECTS ANYTHING I FEEL LIKE IM TAKING CRAZY PILLS
@pwm @phnt @EdBoatConnoisseur @JulioReich rofl at this point I think they're just trying to fuck with people like you
@bajax @phnt @EdBoatConnoisseur @JulioReich I'm just going to have to blow my brains out, there is no alternative or reprieve