Re:FLAC – Format overview
by netr0ute on Monday September 05, 2022 @04:07PM
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Audio quality has gotten a lot better over time as speaker and player technology improved, so now cheap mainstream stuff could be equal to high end back then.
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That is likely true for the transmission of the audio signal.
Regarding the music itself I have heard complaints to the contrary. Loudness war/race and reduced dynamics are keywords I recall here. To blame was the way the audio was mixed before release. I'm not an audiophile though
Not quite, the weakest link are the speakers (and room acoustics), and cheap speakers — which the large
majority of “mainstream” speakers are — still suck today as they did in the 90s.
A lot of mainstream speakers are pretty bad, but I tend to think that once you get above a couple watts the quality-for-money tatto ratio goes up quite a bit.
> and room acoustics
Interestingly, a study suggests that room acoustics don't negatively affect the sound of good speakers, and what that means is that for listening, acoustics don't matter as much as they do for recording.