• @theangryseal
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        111 year ago

        Absolutely.

        I had gone awhile without buying any albums on cd. Icky Thump by the White Stripes came out, I downloaded it and had been jamming it in the car every day.

        I took a friend out shopping and seen a copy and thought, “You know what? I want the album art.”

        I took my burned cd out of the player and put the actual release on there.

        “Boodoodwiddle dah boom boom boom boom boom boom boom, bah dah bow!!!”

        I couldn’t believe how powerful it sounded.

        I only fucked with flac after that.

      • Reality Suit
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        21 year ago

        Exactly. Speakers make the difference. My car audio has a better range then my home setup. I haven’t gotten a subwoofer for my home. But the same songs from my phone sound a million times better in my car than on my home audio setup. Great speakers with a cheap head unit will sound better than the most expensive unit using cheap crappy speakers.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Yeah, bass suffers a lot.

          It’s the same with movies. The difference between Netflix and a Blu-ray with Dolby TrueHD or DTS-MA is night and day on a half decent home theatre setup. On TV speakers you’d likely hear no difference at all.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      I’m not going to pretend I can hear the difference, but I have plenty of storage so I don’t care. I like having the best version available

    • @misterwu
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      I have my music collection sitting as FLACs on my Multimedia PC, connected to my stereo System. I also have a service running that mirrors my music collection by converting it to m4a files and automaticly sends it over to my phone once it connects to my home wifi. I have set up the conversion (qaac64) so the difference between a flac and the m4a file is unnoticable over my bluetooth buds (playing the m4a from my phone).

      While I cant hear the difference on my phone, I definiley can hear a difference on my stereo / hifi headphones

    • @[email protected]
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      The bigger issue is that if you decide to convert to whatever new lossy format might become popular in the future, it will be worse to convert from lossy to lossy than from FLAC to lossy.

      I use FLAC to archive my CDs and convert to mp3 to listen to them on my phone, in my car, etc.

    • @JigglySackles
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      21 year ago

      Part of whether you can tell a difference depends on your setup. If you have average gear, it would only make a minor difference. Also depends how much you care about how things sound. Most people don’t give much of a shit if things are muddy or clear.