Comment on Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers

• Damarus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You can hear a difference between 320 kbps mp3/aac/vorbis and lossless? Can you prove that with an ABX test?

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  • Dempf@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I notice the difference with an ABX test. Spent about $700 or so on my audio equipment, so I guess it is “budget” in the audiophile world.

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    • Damarus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What equipment do you have? My main setup is a Motu M4 with two Adam Audio T5V and multi point room correction done in REW. For headphones I’m mostly using DT 770 Pro 80 Ohm (there’s different drivers depending on the impedance and these sound warmer). I also have a sizeable collection of IEMs with ratings up to a B- on the crin list.

      I can hear sounds up to about 16k. I cannot differentiate good lossy encodes from lossless audio.

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  • mateofeo85@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Eh, I got 40% on 2 tries. It’s something I guess. Either way, why not take the higher quality version if it’s included?

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    • Damarus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      So in other words you may as well have guessed randomly and gotten the same result. I’m against lossless streaming because my bandwidth is a limited resource and it will take longer to load the same track with higher bitrate. As there is no audible difference, there is also no practical reason to choose it.

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    • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      So quite literally worse than a coin flip, then.

      Streaming lossless audio will use up three to six times as much data, along with the higher processing demands to play them back, so there’s always a penalty involved. We didn’t invent codecs for no reason.

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