Tried flac vs 192 vorbis with various headphones. E.g. moondrop starfield, fiio fa1, grado sr80x…
Can’t tell a difference. Kept using vorbis.
Imo the biggest bump is from mp3 to lossless. The drums sound more organic on flacs whereas on most mp3s they sound like a computer MIDI sound.
The biggest bump for me was the change in headphones. It made my really old aac 256kbps music sound bad.
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
vividspecter@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Opus is the way these days. Pretty much transparent even at 128kbps (arguably with even lower bitrates in most cases).
kogasa@programming.dev 8 months ago
320kbps cbr and v0 vbr mp3 are audibly transparent. Most likely, 250kbps and v2 are too.