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Re:FLAC 1.3.0 Released by mitchi on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @11:27AM (#5862320)
I have invested a lot of money into good headphones and good speakers and I can't tell the difference between good lame mp3s and flac...
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Re:FLAC 1.3.0 Released by pja on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @11:56AM (#5862566)
Blind test? HydrogenAudio forums will tell you that if it's not a blind A/B test you can fool yourself very easily.

You might also like to try AAC (or ogg) at a similar bitrate: MP3 has a couple of encoding peculiarities that are an unavoidable function of the format & if you know what to listen out for they're fairly obvious even at higher bitrates. (I'd still be surprised if you could tell the difference between flac and 320kps mp3 in a blind test though.)

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Re:FLAC 1.3.0 Released by macalicious on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @12:08PM (#5862662)
I think you misread "can't" and "can".
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Re:FLAC 1.3.0 Released by pja on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @12:20PM (#5862762)
oops: Mea culpa.
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