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Originally Posted by Zeke
I have read that an MP3 file has 10% of the analog signal. Like those msispeleld words that you still recognize, you 'hear' the song.
But she's not there.
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Sorry, I simply don't believe that. I have some very good (not reference quality, but pretty darn good) headphones, and I simply cannot hear the difference between a WAV (bit-for-bit copy of the CD track) or the same track rendered as FLAC (lossless compression).
Audiophiles truly despise MP3's because it's a lossy compression. And there are very many crappy MP3's out there.
But with high-quality renderers (LAME), correcting rippers (Paranoia) and suitable (high, preferably variable) bitrates, MP3's can be produced which I cannot audibly distinguish from either WAV or FLAC. And neither apparently can audiophile snobs with music PhD's and a sound engineering background (yeh, tested on the ex).
It's quite ludicrous for this even to come up come up in the context of a "music conversion" system that costs sub-$100. There's the smoking gun for ****ty quality right there. A $5 DAC might be digital, but not all digital is equal.. And a turntable without bearings? Please - folks who cared used to spend more on a STYLUS - 30 years ago - than that entire system costs
Just don't do A/D at all unless you're going to do it right. Ripping audio digitally from CD's - reading ALL the bits that were recorded - means that the only A/D converter involved in the whole process was an expensive one with lots of blinky lights in the recording/mastering studio run by a professional.