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| ▲ | t-3 an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| I can't tell the difference with most headphones, but with monitors or a good system in a good listening environment there are some details that get lost in compression, but there's essentially 0 difference from losslezd if I rip a CD to opus or mp3 rather than from a stream. |
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| ▲ | bluescrn 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Hearing also degrades over time. In my 20s I was a lot more fussy about audio formats and hi-fi gear. Approaching 50, with less sensitive ears and a bit of tinnitus, I’m happy with the convenience of Bluetooth headphones and whatever format Spotify uses. |
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| ▲ | seba_dos1 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Opus - perhaps, but claiming that 128kbps Vorbis is transparent would be rather stretching it (unless it's a mono stream); though how easily it will be detectable depends on the kind of music used to test it. However, if you added, say, Bluetooth A2DP to the mix and made it go through a lossy encoder again the difference should be pretty obvious to anyone with good ears. |
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| ▲ | archagon an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yeah, but people aren’t uploading high quality music to begin with. It’s probably like two or three levels of compressed by the time you yt-dlp it. |
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| ▲ | gfody an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| crappy speakers? |
