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In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud (www.tomshardware.com)
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[โ€“] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I really noticed when I switched from Spotify to Tidal that there is something different about Spotify's sound quality that makes it worse even at the highest streaming quality. I was surprised since I fully admit that in 99% of cases I can't tell the difference between a 128kbps MP3 and a FLAC of the same file.

[โ€“] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

Could be poor mastering. You can't always just take a track and squish it down to a low bitrate without tweaking some settings.