[Scott Dorsey]

rakman wrote:
On May 15, 1:35=A0pm, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
rakman wrote:

16bit/44.1 files off a CD don't exactly sound great.
Far from pure, full and accurate.

Clearly you're listening to the wrong CDs, then.

Lol. Fair enough. It's true that FLAC sounds
miles better than mp3.

It might or it might not. But it sounds exactly like the original which
makes it useful. Because it is bit for bit identical with the original.

Sometimes high rate MP3s sound fine... but sometimes they don't, and
therefore you can't use them for comparison purposes because you can't
split apart the compression artifacts from the things you're comparing.

With a lossless system you at least eliminate one big set of confounding
variables. There are plenty more, but that's what makes life interesting.
--scott

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