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Sister services, email, and search will continue to be negatively effected by the attacks. I made a thread to talk about it, if you're into networking.
It's not every day I would link to NPR, but this is an interesting article from a few years back:
www.npr.org
Do you have audiophile headphones or a setup built for quality audio? Can you earnestly distinguish between lossless (flac) / uncompressed audio (wav) and 320kpbs (mp3 / m4a)? Are you still young enough for your ears to detect it?
Even with audiophile headphones, I only got the first one right and that might've been beginner's luck. The rest I kept fucking up. Obviously, 128kbps and lower sound much worse than anything with a higher bitrate mp3, but depending on the music, I really can't hear the difference between lossless and a high bitrate mp3 / m4a.
As a guy who listens to a lot of aggressive heavy music with quite a collection of lossless audio kicking around, I find the guitars don't sound much different at higher bitrates, but the biggest audible difference for me is the "fullness" of the bass for lack of better word. Bass at uncompressed audio or 320kbps sounds much more palpable whereas lower bitrates sound considerably flatter.
How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?
A hi-def test for your ears (and your audio equipment): Listen to these songs and see if you can tell the difference between an MP3 and an uncompressed audio file.
www.npr.org
Do you have audiophile headphones or a setup built for quality audio? Can you earnestly distinguish between lossless (flac) / uncompressed audio (wav) and 320kpbs (mp3 / m4a)? Are you still young enough for your ears to detect it?
Even with audiophile headphones, I only got the first one right and that might've been beginner's luck. The rest I kept fucking up. Obviously, 128kbps and lower sound much worse than anything with a higher bitrate mp3, but depending on the music, I really can't hear the difference between lossless and a high bitrate mp3 / m4a.
As a guy who listens to a lot of aggressive heavy music with quite a collection of lossless audio kicking around, I find the guitars don't sound much different at higher bitrates, but the biggest audible difference for me is the "fullness" of the bass for lack of better word. Bass at uncompressed audio or 320kbps sounds much more palpable whereas lower bitrates sound considerably flatter.