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[Duran 387]

neat-o

That's really cool, very ingenious.

[Adrian_D 520]

hit up the caldecott tunnel on my way up through the bay area yesterday. kind of a cool pic:

[topgun 262]

Posted these screenshots on a different forum about why .mp3 sucks and how much you actually lose in the format... I just used the spectrum analyzer in foobar.

192

225k

.flac

[Adrian_D 520]

Sad thing is not everything can be found in .flac

Also, the actual quality of the recording matters. I have some Red Hot Chilli Peppers albums in flac and the recordings are garbage.

[topgun 262]

Sad thing is not everything can be found in .flac

Also, the actual quality of the recording matters. I have some Red Hot Chilli Peppers albums in flac and the recordings are garbage.

Very true, I have some music that I would dearly love to have recorded better, but alas, it was when the artist was not a very big name and it sucks.

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

Sad thing is not everything can be found in .flac

can be if you buy the albums

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

nice to see places like the iTunes store releasing stuff in lossless though

[///M5 2,833]

Sad thing is not everything can be found in .flac

Also, the actual quality of the recording matters. I have some Red Hot Chilli Peppers albums in flac and the recordings are garbage.

Although the analyzer can show some differences, your ear is a whole different animal. Obviously the all digital analyzer has a bit more capability to resolve than we can. In the mp3 realm 192k is audibly different on some tracks, although not all, in particular in your car. Hell I guarantee most people couldn't tell the difference back to back.

[///M5 2,833]

I have actually been contemplating a data reduction for my music collection. It is all FLAC now as I ripped my own CD's but keeping it that way takes too much space. Since I have the originals I may blast it all down to mp3 and call it good, I just haven't decided what rate yet though. The one thing I can for sure say is that it will be higher than 192, but I am not sure by how far.

[///M5 2,833]

reripTOP

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

....in particular in your car. Hell I guarantee most people couldn't tell the difference back to back...

even with a fancy pants 3 way active SQ set up?

[///M5 2,833]

....in particular in your car. Hell I guarantee most people couldn't tell the difference back to back...

even with a fancy pants 3 way active SQ set up?

"in particular" -> real obvious that the noise floor of your living room is a bit higher than in the car, on top of that obviously it is much easier to make things sound better in home.

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

hmmm, I learned something today...and here I was snickering at people using MP3 with fully active SQ setups...

[Adrian_D 520]

Sad thing is not everything can be found in .flac

Also, the actual quality of the recording matters. I have some Red Hot Chilli Peppers albums in flac and the recordings are garbage.

Very true, I have some music that I would dearly love to have recorded better, but alas, it was when the artist was not a very big name and it sucks.

Funny thing is RHCP had good recordings back in the day. The newer albums are recorded like crap.

[Adrian_D 520]

Sad thing is not everything can be found in .flac

can be if you buy the albums

True, true. I was tempted at some point to start buying.

Had some "bad" experiences lately, same song downloaded from 3 sources, each version sounded diffrent.

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

on a somewhat related note, my sister dug up her Creative Nomad Jukebox...should be interesting to find out whats on this thing...

[Adrian_D 520]

Sad thing is not everything can be found in .flac

Also, the actual quality of the recording matters. I have some Red Hot Chilli Peppers albums in flac and the recordings are garbage.

Although the analyzer can show some differences, your ear is a whole different animal. Obviously the all digital analyzer has a bit more capability to resolve than we can. In the mp3 realm 192k is audibly different on some tracks, although not all, in particular in your car. Hell I guarantee most people couldn't tell the difference back to back.

I'm not even bothering with extremely high quality when the engine is running in my little tractor. Although I have to admit I noticed some diffrences driving in a friend's car but i think most of them are because of very high recording levels.

[Adrian_D 520]

Chicane albums were a nice surprise. Good recordings IMO. Can't find them in flac so I might just start buying albums

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

driver install worked just fine, noice

[Adrian_D 520]

hmmm, I learned something today...and here I was snickering at people using MP3 with fully active SQ setups...

I know a few people who keep houndreds of audio CD's in the car just because "mp3 sucks". One of them wanted to install armoured glass to reduce road noise. Talk about obsessions.

[Tirefryr 1,742]

Damn alarm. . .

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

oh my god what the FUCK Creative your download section SUCKS

[topgun 262]

I have actually been contemplating a data reduction for my music collection. It is all FLAC now as I ripped my own CD's but keeping it that way takes too much space. Since I have the originals I may blast it all down to mp3 and call it good, I just haven't decided what rate yet though. The one thing I can for sure say is that it will be higher than 192, but I am not sure by how far.

Why bother? Storage space is relatively cheap... 320k seems to work pretty well for me though.

[topgun 262]

My roommate is a fucking retard. I had a paper that I needed sitting on the kitchen table... The table in our house is a staging area for stuff, it was there not two days and he burned two holes in it fucking around. Now I have to wait till monday till that office opens back up to have them print me out another one so I can get it mailed off.

Fucking retards, I swear they will be the death of me.