armandkhambatta
01-19-2006, 12:40 PM
Ive been seeing a lot of new audio formats off late and I wanted to know what major difference there really is between them.
Explain this; Apple lossless and,say, WMA lossless are both formats that seek to keep the audio quality of the disc contents unchanged; yet on the same song, WMA encodes at 300-400kbps, while Apple does it at 700-800kbps.Thus the bitrate, as well as the size of the music folder ,is totally different, and both supposedly have the same output.
Also, lossless formats use upto 10 times the space on my ipod, and frankly, after 320 kbps I cant tell the difference. And I dont see any major major lax in quality at 256kbps mp3. Is there a real audibile difference.Does it only tell on mega expensive audio equipment? Also,correct me if I'm wrong, I think after a point the human ear can't tell the difference. Is there any such "swarchzchild radius" for the ears beyond which the nuinces make no difference? I'm puzzled.
Explain this; Apple lossless and,say, WMA lossless are both formats that seek to keep the audio quality of the disc contents unchanged; yet on the same song, WMA encodes at 300-400kbps, while Apple does it at 700-800kbps.Thus the bitrate, as well as the size of the music folder ,is totally different, and both supposedly have the same output.
Also, lossless formats use upto 10 times the space on my ipod, and frankly, after 320 kbps I cant tell the difference. And I dont see any major major lax in quality at 256kbps mp3. Is there a real audibile difference.Does it only tell on mega expensive audio equipment? Also,correct me if I'm wrong, I think after a point the human ear can't tell the difference. Is there any such "swarchzchild radius" for the ears beyond which the nuinces make no difference? I'm puzzled.