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Re:Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Monday May 17, 2021 @10:50AM (#27184093)
I've done blind tests and I can tell if I try really hard but I wouldn't even say that the mp3 sounds worse, just different. I focus on hi hats.

I do collect lossless audio for archival reasons and the ability to convert from a non lossy source.

I believe that high bitrate audio is entirely bullshit though- as Chris Montgomery has shown:

https://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml

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Re:Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio by adrianmonk on Monday May 17, 2021 @02:20PM (#27186405)
> high bitrate audio

Based on the opening part of that video, I think you must have meant to say high sampling rate.

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Re:Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Monday May 17, 2021 @04:49PM (#27188280)
Yes. Thanks. It's been awhile since I watched.
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Re:Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio by snvzz on Monday May 17, 2021 @09:56PM (#27190525)
>I wouldn't even say that the mp3 sounds worse, just different.

If you're comparing against lossless, sounding different means sounding worse.

The goal is transparency: Preserving the qualities of the original audio that you can actually hear, while occupying less space.

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