audiophile: carefully selects expensive gold plated cable for best audio quality
the wiring at the recording studio:
@thor I know a self proclaimed audiophile who refuses to listen to anything other than flac... but he uses 40 dollar earbuds
@vriska@lizards.live @thor@pl.thj.no tbh I can usually feel a difference between a decently encoded mp3 file and a lossless encode on my 10$ earbuds, but it isn't that much of a difference, and these earbuds punch way above 10$.
bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
i usually store music as flac, but that is for archival purposes. some time ago i tested at which bitrate i could hear artifacts with opus, iirc it was around 64kbps. opus is really an amazing codec :)
@bonifartius @ignaloidas @thor @vriska Personally, digital artifacts irk me more than tape hiss or vinyl cracks.
@bonifartius@qoto.org @thor@pl.thj.no @vriska@lizards.live I mean, I haven't conducted proper AB testing, so yes. Though, now I might.