I don't know how this is possible...

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Wow, that's worse than this
Source: YouTube

Assassinator would love this:

Quote:I know many friends who have used higher compression on their FLAC files and, with my gear, I can clearly hear the artifacts. I realize most people won't but I've got mostly high end stuff, and I always burn in both my audio and network cables before using them and mark them with directional arrows (only with pvc-free tape and audio-grade markers) so that the don't get installed backwards after they've been burned in.

I'm amazed at how many people can't seem to grasp the fine points of lossless compression for audio work. I find most non-audiophiles expect that lossless means that what you put in exactly matches what you put out. I can tell you first hand, though, that when you spend as much money on gear as I have, you recognize that perfection comes from not just the bits, but the purity in which the bits are delivered. They may be the same ones and zeros, but a discerning ear can always tell the difference in the various lossless formats when listening to the color and soundstage of the reproduced performance.

(28/02/2012 10:35 PM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  Assassinator would love this:

Quote:I know many friends who have used higher compression on their FLAC files and, with my gear, I can clearly hear the artifacts. I realize most people won't but I've got mostly high end stuff, and I always burn in both my audio and network cables before using them and mark them with directional arrows (only with pvc-free tape and audio-grade markers) so that the don't get installed backwards after they've been burned in.

I'm amazed at how many people can't seem to grasp the fine points of lossless compression for audio work. I find most non-audiophiles expect that lossless means that what you put in exactly matches what you put out. I can tell you first hand, though, that when you spend as much money on gear as I have, you recognize that perfection comes from not just the bits, but the purity in which the bits are delivered. They may be the same ones and zeros, but a discerning ear can always tell the difference in the various lossless formats when listening to the color and soundstage of the reproduced performance.

This kind of stuff never ceases to amaze me.  Where did you hear this from?

Should tell him about 24bit FLAC and get him to re-encode his collection from 16bit to 24bit.

Quote:audio-grade markers

What the hell are audio-grade markers anyway?

(This post was last modified: 28/02/2012 10:56 PM by Assassinator.)

Also, a surprisingly large amount of audiophiles actually believe MP3s degrade over time.  How they ever came to that conclusion I don't know, probably some people with broken HDDs decided to sprout some herpderp somewhere about their MP3s degrading along with the usual "I have ultra expensive audio hardware best out there I can tell when you can't".  Then a whole lot of idiots blindly believed that and spread the word probably.


At one stage they even had that shit on Wikipedia.

Quote:The following is from the AAC page on Wikipedia:

QUOTE
A natural side effect of the MP3 method is that it suffers a loss of information over time - bass frequencies which results in, often even to an untrained ear, distinguishable disfiguration of these frequencies. Among the current, popular audio encoders, MP3 is alone in having this particular disadvantage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_audio_coding

Wikipedia is a very reputable source so I assume its true. How did I miss this? I have been on these boards for a long time and never seen mention of this. Can anyone elaborate? Will our MP3 files really degrade over time?

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums//lof...52660.html

Lol Wikipedia.

(This post was last modified: 28/02/2012 11:20 PM by Assassinator.)

(28/02/2012 10:51 PM)Assassinator Wrote:  This kind of stuff never ceases to amaze me.  Where did you hear this from?

http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?si...d=39187531

Pretty darn funny. Lol @ "Mastered for iTunes".

As you may have figured by now, the guy was being sarcastic.

(This post was last modified: 01/03/2012 09:32 PM by ZiNgA BuRgA.)