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People don't know what to listen for. The compression artefacts may seem like artistic choice to people rather than a loss of quality. Once you know what to li
by varispeed 5y ago
People don't know what to listen for. The compression artefacts may seem like artistic choice to people rather than a loss of quality.
Once you know what to listen for, you can almost always tell the difference, even on lower quality listening devices.
- antiterra 5y agoThis is true, most of 320kbps is indistinguishable, but high hats are often subject to artifacts, including pre-noise that occurs before the sound is supposed to begin. To some it might sound intentional, like a very subtle reverse high hat or other room effect.
- varispeed 5y agoThis and also transients - they sound in a specific way through the way the compression works. Once you hear it, it is difficult to stop paying attention to it.
- antiterra 5y agoRight, high hats are a source of transients which get smeared because there’s a minimum block size in mp3 that is somehow too big to encode it temporally.