CDs are in every way better than vinyl records. They are smaller, much higher quality audio, lower noise floor and don’t wear out by being played. The fact that CD sales are behind vinyl is a sign that the world has gone mad. The fact you can rip and stream your own CD media is fantastic because generally remasters are not good and streaming services typically only have remastered versions, not originals. You have no control on streaming services about what version of an album you’re served or whether it’ll still be there tomorrow. Not an issue with physical media.

The vast majority of people listen to music using equipment that produces audio of poor quality, especially those that stream using ear buds. It makes me very sad when people don’t care that what they’re listening to could sound so much better, especially if played through a hifi from a CD player, or using half decent (not beats) headphones.

There’s plenty of good sounding and well produced music out there, but it’s typically played back through the equivalent of two cans and some string. I’m not sure people remember how good good music can sound when played back through good kit.

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    3 months ago

    You just can’t tell the difference with 320bps mp3. Less yes for sure.

    So sometimes yes, sometimes no 🤷🏻

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      3 months ago

      Study was done when most adults had hearing damage. I can tell the difference between mp3 and flac using headphones under $10 no amp just straight from laptop 3.5mm

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        3 months ago

        128 bits mp3 sure, 160 bits mp3 too, 256 bits mp3 on an okay setup why not, 320bits mp3 no way Jose.

        Are you also hearing the difference with gold cables and all that audiofoolery stuff?

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          3 months ago

          No actually i cannot tell the difference at all between 128kbps thru 320kbps but 320kbps sounds very different from flac lossless. Keep in mind the encoding used in the old days were very bad because it used to take more time to encode with old hardware so they used fast compression (kinda like how video encoding uses fast for encoding live streaming but it looks horrendous compared to slow encoding for non-live Youtube)

          Modern high quality 128kbps encoding sounds the same as 320k

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            3 months ago

            Now you’re just grabbing at straws. Back in the day you didn’t encode to 320bps because your usb-player held like 64MB.

            Also no, todays 128bps does not sound lossless, 320bps do. Try it out to see for yourself! From a nice wav or flac ofc.