heisenberg wrote: > I've been doing some comparative listening to the same tracks, only > rendered in different digital formats. For example, I was comparing some > Beatles tracks issued as 24 bit/44.1 khz to the same tracks issued as 16 > bit/44.1 khz. In addition to that, I've been comparing regular 16 > bit/44.1 khz to the lossy 320 kbps mp3 formats. Here is what's confusing > to me: > When comparing 16 bit lossless to 24 bit lossless, I can plainly hear > the differences. But when comparing 16 bit lossless to 320 kbps lossy > formats of the same song, I cannot, for the life of me, hear any > differences! How's that possible? If you compare the 24bit version offered by EMI to the 16bit version they were treated different and sound different therefore, they are even different in volume. For a fair comparison you may create 16bit versions out of your 24bit files and compare these to the 24bit then.
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