Of acoustic space, the way that the piano sounds decay slowly, What you need to listen to are subtle things like the sense Try this, re-encode them at something far lower fidelity, like 120 CBR.įor a lot of music, moderate VBR can sound pretty decent. Feel like I'm missing out didn't think my She was actually tired of looking at them a decade before I I retired mine because my wife was tired of looking at them. Which is a bit weird, as you rarely listen to more than about 5 to 10 You need to crank themĪnd you have to deliver at least 100 real watts per channel to them.Ī lot of receivers are rated 70 or so watts, but can't deliver itĬontinually, and the Advents have to have it constantly.Īdvents sound a lot better with 200 or more watts per channel, When played fairly loud with an amplifier that delivers a lot of watts.īut they do not sound good at low levels. Large Advents have a serious problem with linearity. Like my gradfather's ax, in that I replaced the tweeters and the woofers > than my old Advent speakers (might get new speakers later this year). > I'm listening through my Labtec :) headphones,īe warned, headphones have all sorts of non-linearities. It is trivial to generate MP3 or OggVorbisįrom the FLAC files, it is impossible to goĪnd some day, you might get a better system and will So you don't have to rerip all your files later. If you can't tell, then there is no difference.īut if you can't tell and it is easy, maybe you want to do it
The reality is that blind testing of good audio systems is This gets into the serious theological issues of blind testing. > for you to pick the FLAC version consistently?
> - Honest now: if I played the two side by side, how hard would it be > - What frequencies benefit the most (low/mid/high)? The key thing is that you have to like the music, and it I use acoustic or acoustic and vocal music for testing.Ī jazz trio, or a jazz vocalist, classical chamber music, Or very low frequencies in electric rock guitars. Were huge distortion machines and had very lowįrequency bandwidth. The classic guitar amps, AC30s, Marshals, etc. Rock was recorded with very low fidelity equipment - earlyīeatles and Stones stuff only had to sound good on car AM I'm not familiar with that particular album, but lots of > - What kinds of music will benefit most from FLAC vs. > side by side), and could not hear any differences! > songs (mainly the beginning of the songs to make it easier to compare I went back and forth, back and forth, over a bunch of So I thought I would give it an audition before spending Since then, I've read on and on how much FLAC is used here and in > Before I knew anything about FLAC, I ripped my CDs to MP3 (VBR, 160kbps Honest now: if I played the two side by side, how hard would it be for you to pick the FLAC version consistently? What frequencies benefit the most (low/mid/high)? What kinds of music will benefit most from FLAC vs. I went back and forth, back and forth, over a bunch of songs (mainly the beginning of the songs to make it easier to compare side by side), and could not hear any differences! I was just like a little kid at Christmas, all ready to experience the difference that 4.5x the bitrate (and storage) was going to yield. I loaded dBpowerAmp (faster and easier than EAC w/FLAC) and ripped just one album: The Cars Greatest Hits. So I thought I would give it an audition before spending all that time to re-rip everything. Since then, I've read on and on how much FLAC is used here and in other forums. Before I knew anything about FLAC, I ripped my CDs to MP3 (VBR, 160kbps min).
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