muelltonne@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 hours agoIn a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mudwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square122fedilinkarrow-up1648arrow-down17
arrow-up1641arrow-down1external-linkIn a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mudwww.tomshardware.commuelltonne@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 hours agomessage-square122fedilink
minus-squareSanctimoniousApe@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 hours ago128kbps files are roughly 90% compression from raw, so not comparable. I’ll admit that I haven’t bothered with FLAC much, but in my limited experience it generally is pretty rare to see much above 50-55% compression from raw.
128kbps files are roughly 90% compression from raw, so not comparable. I’ll admit that I haven’t bothered with FLAC much, but in my limited experience it generally is pretty rare to see much above 50-55% compression from raw.