My hearing isn’t extraordinarily acute, bit I can hear the difference, especially in transient-rich sounds like cymbals.
Hell, I can’t even tell the difference between 128kbps and flac. Realizing that saved me a whole lot of hard drive space :D
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
With quality headphones, back to back, I’m confident that you could
fluxx@lemmy.world 4 days ago
And even if you can - is it worth it? I mean - do I care and should I care? Is the point of music detecting every detail of the recording or can I appreciate it without paying that much attention to production? For instance, I find it much more convenient to use Bluetooth headphones as it allows me to move around the house. Flac immediately stops being relevant, as Bluetooth codec is really bad compared to almost any codec. I recently tried ldac codec on my headphones - couldn’t really tell the difference. Mp3 128kbps is just fine for me. Almost any situation. I care about musical content much more than production details. Other people might care more. I don’t.
klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 3 days ago
This is the other part. Idk if it’s me, or my equipment, but like… I listen to music for the music. I might like certain genres (noise music comes to mind) more on higher end equipment, because that’s the point, but also… Eh? Not why I’m here.
kabe@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s still a good idea to have your main music library in flac for future proofing, but yeah 128kbps opus or ogg is what I use on mobile devices.
0x0@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Isn’t Ogg a container format?
TIL that Opus replaces both Speex and Vorbis (the latter of which i was about to question on).
kabe@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah, it is. Vorbis is the actual codec.