minus-squareSanctimoniousApe@piefed.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mudlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-25 hours ago128kbps files are roughly 90% compression from raw, so not comparable. I’ll admit that I haven’t bothered with FLAC much, but in my limited experience it generally is pretty rare to see much above 50-55% compression from raw. linkfedilink
minus-squareSanctimoniousApe@piefed.socialtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•my daily reality of 'old man screaming at the clouds' is far different than i expected as a youthlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·11 days agoThen you came to the cloud to express this shower thought. linkfedilink
128kbps files are roughly 90% compression from raw, so not comparable. I’ll admit that I haven’t bothered with FLAC much, but in my limited experience it generally is pretty rare to see much above 50-55% compression from raw.