I went through some remasters where I definitely had a preference towards the original but that wasn't because of sound quality, it was because of dynamic range that was slightly squashed out on badly mastered 3 CD hip-hop compilations. I appreciate it on some of the 80s stuff but if you had me blind testing the songs between a 320 remaster and an uncompressed version of the same song I don't know if I could tell you the difference consistently.
Anyone who has mowed their lawn a few dozen times without hearing protection or gone to loud concerts without earplugs can't even hear above a practical threshold anyways. Popular music just doesn't have dynamic range anymore.Īll the research I've seen proves that 99% of people can't hear the difference between 192 and higher anyways, which is absolutely true for my hearing. In both of my cars I can't even venture a guess. I have 3 different sets of monitor grade headphones, studio monitors and a THX certified home system and there are so few tracks where I can tell a difference between AIFF/FLAC/WAV and Spotify or LAME encoded 320 or VBR. The more time I spend on it, the more underwhelmed I am. I think your approach is the most practical. they usually do all the latest stuff in many genres. i just stayed with it to keep my active DJing library as uniform as possible, as well as eventually replacing most of the 128s that were standard initially with 192s.įor intro loops, i get stuff from. i started doing that because in the early days high bitrate was very rare to find, so 192 was an average for good quality compressed files. then if i'm putting files on my laptop to use DJing, i go to 192 and still can't tell the difference normally. i can't tell the difference, even though i know that it exists on a spectrometer somewhere lol. sometimes i'll save wavs (protools 7 doesn't have flac option). but when i record vinyl for archiving, i'm normally doing 320. if i get something already in flac, cool, i convert it as needed. i tell myself that one day i'll regret not doing it, but that's been over 10 years and i've never cared to store my music in lossless.
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