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Originally Posted by flip
Until Itunes switches to a lossless format I'll be buying most of my music in CD format or DLing it <removed> in Flac or Wav.
Anyone who is a snob about music should be up in arms about the MP3 revolution that has occurred in the last 10 years.
We have basically gone from DVD to VHS in the last 10 years and no one cares. If you listen to anything but Flac, Wav, Apple Lossless you are ruining your music and destroying your ability to hear good music by listening to lossy formats.
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Went ahead and fixed that for you
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Originally Posted by OBCT
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Personally, I highly highly doubt I could consistently tell the difference between any song encoded as a 320kbps MP3 and a lossless FLAC, even when played on ideal equipment. True double-blind testing would offer similar results for most people, I'd reckon
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I very much agree. I used to go lossless too and then one day I found I was running low on space. I decided to set up a test where I had several songs in both formats. I had a friend randomize them and i tried to tell them apart and I was horrible at picking the file that was many times larger. True I'm not piping it through an expensive system or over expensive headphones, but the lack of difference was still quite staggering.
I notice the same debate over jpeg images vs. lossless image formats. Truthfully the number of times you'd have to copy an image to have any noticeable drop in quality is pretty high. Things like weddings or big vacations I could justify having them backed up somewhere in a lossless format, but not standard everyday stuff. I guess I have the same attitude towards my music ... the most important music in my life I have hard copies for, but anything that doesn't fall within my 5% awesome sphere is given the mp3 treatment.