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In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 8 points 7 months ago* (6 children)

128kbps files are roughly 90% compression from raw, so not comparable. I'll admit that I haven't bothered with FLAC much, but in my limited experience it generally is pretty rare to see much above 50-55% compression from raw.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Anything that requires remuxing multiple times pretty much requires lossless compression. Else it'd become like screenshots of memes because the compression adds up.

    That being said, last time I was working with professional audio people, they still preferred WAW as their intermediary format.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    Thing is, storage isn't at a premium anymore, so there's no reason not to use lossless even if you can't hear the difference.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Thing is, storage isn’t at a premium anymore,

    U sure about that?

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