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• GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Do you hear it consistently under double-blind conditions?

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  • arin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Yes, i actually can’t listen to Spotify (even their HD) because the quality is so bad (sounds noticably bad to me). I pay for lossless streaming even though some indie music is not available on the lossless service so i go look for it on lossy services.

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    • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      You’re telling me you’ve gone through all the effort of performing a double-blind test all by yourself?

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      • arin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I’ve done this test before, a zip folder with all 4 sources all same file size and you can listen to them and note how each sounds then you can read which one is which later from another source

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• vox@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  you’re probably lying or this is kind of placebo effect .
  ogg can reach transparency at even 150kbps, and you want to use double that for converting flacs.

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  • arin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Is ogg lossless? Just because you have limited hearing doesn’t mean there aren’t people who can hear differences. There are women who can see more colors than normal people tetrachromacy. Assuming someone is lying because they aren’t hearing damaged is absurd. Also young kids have better hearing(less damage) than adults, hearing damaged from work or life conditions like traffic with windows down.

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    • vox@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      well if you need both recordings and an audio spectrometer to even notice the difference, it might as well not exist. good lossy compression is indistinguishable from lossless

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      • arin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Ah yes thank you for verifying that it’s not just as good

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