Timeline for How to check the quality of an audio sample?
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| Jul 13, 2019 at 21:34 | comment | added | leftaroundabout | @topomorto yes, that's exactly what it means correctly, but when people argue why “lossy is bad” this is usually not what they mean. | |
| Jul 13, 2019 at 9:56 | comment | added | Нет войне | @leftaroundabout I always thought lossless was generally used to mean "compared to the original stream of sampled values" (i.e. post sampling) rather than "compared to the analogue original" (when you'd be comparing apples with oranges...) | |
| Jul 13, 2019 at 8:12 | comment | added | William Brewer | While I do agree with your sentiment that 'lossless' is not in the most literal term 'lossless', it is one of the terms used by most circles to describe the kind of work that type of encoder does upon a file. Most people will have an opinion on the coloration from the mic'ing and the minimal effects of the DAC through listening alone, so I felt it was prudent to only explain things which are easily missed - in fact purposefully designed to be missed. | |
| Jul 13, 2019 at 7:50 | comment | added | leftaroundabout | Although this is a pretty good answer, and actually applicable since many samples found on the internet are in the truely bad 128kBit/s mp3 format, it has still aspects that are FUD. As I've argued before here, there is no such thing as lossless audio since audio is in principle an analogue phenomenon, and the only meaningful distinction is “does it sound notably different from the original”? Specifically, the transient behaviour even of a “perfect lossless” system is not actually perfect; the filter in the DAC smears transients out in a quite similar way to gentle lossy encoding. | |
| S Jul 13, 2019 at 3:05 | history | suggested | Ken Graham | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 12, 2019 at 20:10 | history | answered | William Brewer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |