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About the same as what I've AXB'd in the past as well. Most tracks at ~256kbps AAC are the same to me as the uncompressed version (some doesn't compress that we
by stordoff 11y ago
About the same as what I've AXB'd in the past as well. Most tracks at ~256kbps AAC are the same to me as the uncompressed version (some doesn't compress that well so still arifact, but are rare). Around 128kbps is fine, but I can pick out which is which. Lower than ~100kbps is awful - the arfiacts are instantly obnoxious and I hate listening to it.
It doesn't really apply to streaming, but I keep my music as lossless files despite that. It removes any questions of "Could this sound better?" and I can transcode to a device-appropiate format without compounding the quality loss (desktop has lossless files, laptop has a 256kbps copy, mobile devices have a 128kbps copy)