Please help with questions about FLAC/MP3.

[GranteedEV]

Any system that can not easily distinguish a lossy from and not lossy format, is in my view not very good, in fact it is a poor low resolution system not worth the time of day.

Clearly your system can easily distinguish a lossy from lossless.

You mind taking a lossless file, convert it to 320kbps CBR with LAME, and do ABX testing and print screen your score?

 

[808htfan]

2. Can I burn FLAC's to a regular CD-RW and play them in a standard audio CD player?

Someone may have already mentioned this (I didn't go thru each post, just did a quick scan) Just to be sure, you'd have to burn the disc as cd audio, rather than as a data disc. So the burning program will have to decode the Flacs prior to/as it's burning or you'll have to do it manually.

You could use Burrrn, http://www.burrrn.net/?page_id=4. It's simple as can be, pretty much just drag-n-drop. It'll automatically decode Flac, mp3, and a whole bunch of other formats for you and burn as audio cd. If using an external burner, you might have to put nero's wnaspi32.dll in Burrrn's program folder, ftp://ftp6.nero.com/wnaspi32.dll

 

[TLS Guy]

Clearly your system can easily distinguish a lossy from lossless.

You mind taking a lossless file, convert it to 320kbps CBR with LAME, and do ABX testing and print screen your score?

Some years ago my son, who is an electrical engineer and I did a research project into lossy codecs as. We found that in my Grand Forks ND studio, we could tell lossy codecs like mp3 320 kbps. We played wav. files and converted files double blind from wave lab, and both of us could tell the two 100% of the time.

With my new rig it is even easier, the recognition is instant.

Now we chose well recorded music from ambient spaces for evaluation.
You have to understand that these are speakers that present a huge sound stage, with depth, that really gives the effect of walls opening on good recordings.

Our researches showed among other ills that lossy codecs threw out a lot of the ambient information preferentially. We came to the conclusion that these codecs were pop industry geared. That they certainly are.

 

[techenvy]

imo vinyl sounds much better than flac

-and i am unable to post for some reason wth

 

[bandphan]

imo vinyl sounds much better than flac

-and i am unable to post for some reason wth

So vinyl ripped to .flac sounds bad ???

 

[sholling]

imo vinyl sounds much better than flac

-and i am unable to post for some reason wth

Maybe a FLAC made from a lower quality source but the only way you'll be able to tell a HQ FLAC from vinyl is one will hiss, pop and crackle. Of course if you're into his, pop, and crackle that may sound heavenly.

 

[JerryLove]

imo vinyl sounds much better than flac

It's simply not possible.

You could argue that the digitized song sounded different, whether because of the wave resolution or the ADC. You could argue that playback of the digital wave sounded worse either because of the above or because the decoder / DAC / amp was inferior.

FLAC is just a way to store a wave, and it does it with 100% accuracy. That's what "lossless" means.