How many of you prefer losless over compressed music?

[Snaffle J. Bean]

After listening to a bunch of Royksopp on YouTube and Grooveshark, I bought a few of their CDs. After ripping them to FLAC, I noticed a huge difference in audio quality. Now all my other music sounds like stuff D:

Just curious, but does compression matter to you? Only if it's under a certain bitrate?

Sorry if this is a stupid topic, I've just been bored lately and want your opinion on this :I

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[Coolio]

Really, all my music (MP3, FLAC, OGG, etc) sounds the same to me.

[dkamm65]

You won't notice a difference in audio quality higher than 320kb/s mp3's outside of a studio with extremely expensive audio equipment.

[Snaffle J. Bean]

You won't notice audio quality higher than 320kB/s mp3's outside of a studio with extremely expensive audio equipment.

I clean my ears a lot and use expensive sennheisers with a dedicated sound card, does that count?

or it could just be the placebo effect D:

[Captain Crazy]

Or maybe it's just that Youtube diddled with the quality and the music from the CD actually is higher quality.

[Jdawg]

Or maybe it's just that Youtube diddled with the quality and the music from the CD actually is higher quality.

Might be one reason handicaps insist on spamming comments about "The good ol' days of youtube" Remember when you could use youtube as an mp3 playe- no. Shut the forget up.

[zookuw]

Well of course I prefer it just like png but it's not always feasible to have.

[TheBlackParrot]

~160k VBR, pretty much always.
compressed.

[stuntman021]

the thing is that even with the highest quality, youtube only does something like 112 kpbs sound. of course you're going to notice a difference between that and flac, but you won't notice a difference between 320 kpbs and flac

[DontCare4Free]

Really, all my music (MP3, FLAC, OGG, etc) sounds the same to me.

This. Generally I use Spotify Premium for pretty much everything which is 320kbps.

I clean my ears a lot and use expensive sennheisers with a dedicated sound card, does that count

Probably. Note to self: buy cheap equipment so you don't get used to "high quality" sound.

[GenaralSkar]

As long as I can hear all the different parts of the song, I'm good.

[Bisjac]

im a .flac guy. i refuse mp3s these days.

mp3s are for the days of old when good headphones and speakers were to spendy to own.
its 2012 now.

[dkamm65]

im a .flac guy. i refuse mp3s these days.

mp3s are for the days of old when good headphones and speakers were to spendy to own.
its 2012 now.

Unless you have studio quality headphones, a dedicated sound card, and an amp, any 'difference' you hear is a placebo effect.