jimmyfergus;187811 Wrote: > I tried one track for a (blind) test to compare FLAC to mp3 (lame -V0 > VBR, avg ~240kbps), and the difference was instantly and clearly > apparent.
I have to correct myself here in my mp3 vs flac tangent-upon-a-tangent on this thread. What I actually used was "lame --alt-preset extreme", which is supposed to be equivalent to -V0. However, I also used a version of lame that is not the latest and greatest (it may have been 3.93). I downloaded the latest (3.97) and the "-V0 --vbr-new" setting gave me something -far- superior. I only managed a _very_ brief listen, and the differences between this, "-b 320", and the FLAC were *not* stand-out obvious. I have to give it a proper listen later. The previous VBR encoding had sections as low as ~140kbps. -- jimmyfergus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jimmyfergus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33112 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
