Fifer wrote:
I very quickly noticed that the life and sound-stage had been sucked from my music.
That describes the problem perfectly. When you lose detail (which is what happens in mp3 encoding) it isn't always immediately obvious, especially on lower grade equipment but you often get a sense of the music being "tiring" to listen to without being able to put a finger on it.
This also applies to the differences between DACs and, to some extent, differences between cables - even digital interconnects. In the digital domain, it is jitter that causes most of the problems by messing up the high-frequency content and losing coherence.
All of the psycho-acoustic cues for "life" and "soundstage" are in the high-frequency content and if that gets messed with you end up with "lifeless", "narrow" sound.
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