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Post by wrongo on Aug 16, 2009 21:20:11 GMT -5
I've recently started to copy my CD's to flac format, to store on an external harddrive... Do you hear differences between say flac or ogg and say mp3 at 192+ bps? Curious minds etc  W. |
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Post by Erik Rupp on Aug 16, 2009 21:24:55 GMT -5
Wow, did I miss something?
What's flac and ogg??? I must be out of the loop...
For what it's worth I can hear a difference between mp3's at 192 and mp3's at 256. It's subtle, but when there is a lot of cymbal work it tends to sound a little swishy.
At 256 I can't hear any difference at all between mp3 and a wave file, although I haven't done any real A/B testing to see for sure (I haven't heard any of the typical mp3 digital flaws that you can hear at 192 or lower once you get up to 256).
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Post by wrongo on Aug 16, 2009 21:42:44 GMT -5
flac and ogg are two compression techniques, somewhat like mp3 but whereas mp3 compression is lossy, ie, you do lose some frequency, they are lossless, that when you convert them back to wav, you have what you started with...
Its rather like taking an image, compressing it to jpg, and restoring it to *.bmp... The restored *.bmp is a little blurrier, and the more you do it the more blurred it gets...
flac and ogg are very high bit rates ~800k, and so are quite large files, but uncompressing them gives you exactly what you started with...
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