You really can’t.
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MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoYou don’t need that much special equipment to tell the difference. I have a lil shitty Jelly Star. I can tell the difference between Spotify’s High and a FLAC from bandcamp with it’s speaker, Bluetooth headphones (Sony Link Buds) and my Car speakers.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 day ago
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
You absolutely can. It’s not massive. But Spotify does sound muddy in comparison. And I’m not some crazy audiophile either. But I’ve definitely heard more clarity in some of my favourite songs and noticed certain powers of them that I’ve never noticed before just because I was using a FLAC vs using Spotify where I used to listen to it.
At a certain point, you’re right your not going to notice a difference on shitty speakers but there’s something about Spotify’s lossy compression that even at high you’ll notice the difference between the two.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 day ago
Completely disagree, and I have tens of gigs of FLAC music to go with my 10s of gigs of MP3.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I also don’t think Spotify’s High setting is as good as an mp3 of the same stated bitrate
fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world 1 day ago
As audiophile as I am (own very expensive (> 1k) headphones for instance) and additionally I’m musician/producer.
I don’t think you can hear the difference between 320kbit bitrate vs flac in a blindtest (this is important, to avoid biasing yourself). I could notice what was a 128kbit mp3 and flac in a blindtest and already that was minimal (and is likely mostly related to the 16k cut-off of 128kbit mp3), but 320kbit, nope…
If you notice a difference it likely has to do with different mastering/LUFS etc. not the compression artifacts themself.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I don’t think Spotify’s High bitrate is as good as it says it is, though. That’s what I’m getting at. Sort of like how YouTube’s encoding for whatever setting you pick is never as good as a local file with the same specs.