Bitrate Challenge Nr. 2 - Identifying Higher Bitrates

s_k · 02-06-2011, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by +81

I think there's certainly a limit to where it really matters all that much.

I guess that depends on how you listen.
When I listen to music on my computer here in my studio, while posting on a forum, chatting, cleaning up... Anything higher than 192kbps will do. Anything under that will be annoying. Tannoy SRM10B's are actual studio monitors. They will show you every flaw

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But when I listen to music in my living room and really sit down to listen to an album, I start missing stuff with any mp3 bitrate.

Audio is a strange thing. I actually was comparing two different power supplies for a phono preamplifier. One was a cheap ass plastic thing that you put directly into the socket, the other one was a nice transformator in a metal housing with decent power cables etcetera.
The difference was HUGE and the cheap ass thing won by miles.
Believe it or not, that difference was WAY easier to hear than the difference between 320kbps mp3 and wav. Strange eh! Just a power supply made the singer sound like he had his hands in front of his mouth...

+81 · 02-07-2011, 10:12 PM

Oh there's no doubt that the devices make a world of difference. Every player has it's subtle (or not so subtle) nuances and adds more or less of it's individual eq colourization. For a lot of 'average quality' audio equipment, I still feel that there's a point where you reach a bitrate threshold where past it you're just splitting hairs and the audible difference is little to none. However, like you said, it really depends on if your gear can accentuate the highs and lows of quality.

**Janszoon** · 02-07-2011, 10:33 PM

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