Ask troubleshooting and setup questions in the Shopping and Setup Help Desk Requests for troubleshooting and setup help must be made in the dedicated Shopping and Setup Help Desk instead of a new post.Ask purchase and shopping questions in the Shopping and Setup Help Desk: Requests for product opinions, comparisons, and general purchase advice must be made in the dedicated Shopping and Setup Help Desk instead of a new post.Be most excellent towards your fellow redditors: And by "be most excellent" we mean no personal attacks, threats, bullying, trolling, baiting, flaming, hate speech, racism, sexism, gatekeeping, or other behavior that makes humanity look like scum.Our primary goal is insightful discussion of home audio equipment, sources, music, and concepts. R/audiophile is a subreddit for the pursuit of quality audio reproduction of all forms, budgets, and sizes of speakers. phile: a person with love for, affinity towards or obsession with high-quality playback of sound and music.No high bitrate can solve that problem (it can only reduce the overall noise that has to be hidden) but newer compression algorithms (like, for example, AAC) are more flexible with their masks and don’t necessarily have the same problem. This happens when there is a short loud sound followed by silence. MP3 can’t have arbitrarily short masks, it is consequently possible that the noise that’s supposed to be hidden under a loud sound spills over to sections where everything is actually quiet. In order to be able to do that the algorithm has to figure out where the mask is and there is, of course, a time dimension to that mask. MP3 (and other lossy compression algorithms) use this mask to hide noise (the noise that results from compressing the audio). Short, sharp sounds (think castanets), for example, are a problem.īecause of the way human hearing works, loud sounds mask quiet sounds. MP3 certainly is limited, it even has some problems that are inherent to it, not even a higher bitrate can fix those. I tried 256kbps AAC files – those were the ones I was planning on buying – and I most certainly couldn’t hear the difference.)
I consequently don’t know whether I can hear the difference.
I did just that before I started buying compressed music. It doesn’t matter who can and cannot hear what, what matters is whether you can hear the difference in a blind test. I don’t think you can trust your ears if you know what you are listening to. Did you do a well controlled blind test is? That’s, I guess, the relevant question.
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