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a well-encoded mp3, ogg, or aac file will be audibly transparent to almost every end user, even on extremely high-end equipment. mp3 does have the side benefit
by metafizikal 8y ago
a well-encoded mp3, ogg, or aac file will be audibly transparent to almost every end user, even on extremely high-end equipment. mp3 does have the side benefit of being supported on damn near everything.
- dvtrn 8y agoIt feels, for some-odd reason that us audio people have to justify our purchasing decisions and desire for quality and fidelity way more than people who spend hundreds of dollars on 21 inch 144hz monitors and care about things like frame rate and texture resolution do. Or maybe not, but it's a feeling.
- Wowfunhappy 8y agoEnthusiasts complain about the crappy latency and refresh rates of modern LCD televisions all the time, against people saying "just turn on motion smoothing and most people won't notice." I'm not justifying one or the other, but it happens in both domains.
- dvtrn 8y agoI suppose I'm glad I offered the caveat that it was a 'feeling', in that case.
- lmm 8y agoIt's pretty easy to learn to recognize mp3 pre-echo and no amount of good encoding will eliminate it.
- twothumbsup 8y agoFor me it's not about lossless sounding better. Storage is so cheap nowadays that it's silly not to have a full lossless encode for an archive/backup. I can transcode that lossless file into any other lossy format but transcoding a lossy file to another format destroys the quality.