Spotify Form F-1

Re:Spotify Form F-1 by dopeboy on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @10:19PM (#16489416)

It's not lossless, you're right. I'm an audiophile too (E10K driving DT770s) and I've never done any A/B testing between a Spotify track and a FLAC equivalent. I'm curious how much the difference is.

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Re:Spotify Form F-1 by KozmoNau7 on Thursday March 01, 2018 @05:00AM (#16490832)

Be careful that it may be hard to match levels 100%, and it's hard to do a blind test with audio coming from two different applications.

There may also be mastering differences between different versions of an album.

So the best thing is actually to do your own Ogg Vorbis encodes of a lossless album you have, and do the a/b testing on those files instead, so you're certain of the provenance.

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Re:Spotify Form F-1 by tomc1985 on Thursday March 01, 2018 @02:03PM (#16495039)

It's really easy to spot with classical music (muddy bass and treble) or tracks with really shimmery high-end (like lots of hats and cymbals). Basically anything that stresses the encoder

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