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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I like both. I was just making the point that "better" can depend on circumstances.

I quite like the sound of vinyl in general.It's highly variable depending on the exact material used and how much play play it has gotten and even the read head, but that's also part of the charm.

A FLAC file will always sound the same on the same equipment. Which can also be a benefit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I had a friend who had a high end FLAC player and kept trying to convince me it was the best thing ever. Honestly though it didn't sound any different than a really good MP3 to me though.

It was a really nice setup he had at his house, but the player was so expensive and all those FLAC files were huge and took up too much drive space for my liking.

I have a TON of MP3 music that I love too. A lot of that stuff doesn't even exist on vinyl though and even if it did I'd need a whole second house to store that many records lol so I try to just get vinyl for special albums that are important to me.

I really think vinyl just sounds more "live" I guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I had a friend who had a high end FLAC player and kept trying to convince me it was the best thing ever. Honestly though it didn't sound any different than a really good MP3 to me though.

The actual intent behind MP3 was to sound the same. Just like all later lossy codecs, it uses a psychoacoustic model to remove high frequency harmonics and other "buried" sounds that are supposedly imperceptible to most human ears, in order to save on data. At its max (CBR 320 kbps) almost nobody should be able to tell the difference from full CD quality.

I had a friend who had a high end FLAC player and kept trying to convince me it was the best thing ever. Honestly though it didn't sound any different than a really good MP3 to me though.

FLAC has a different design philosophy. It's lossless which means it literally keeps every byte of data from a CD or similar source but just compresses it. You can still get down to like 1/4 the size (vs like 1/8 for a high end MP3 or 1/12 for an average MP3). Storage was a big deal a couple decades ago but in this age of 4+ TB hard disks there's not much reason not to go all FLAC all the time (except maybe if you really wanna cram as much music as possible into your phone).