Source first still important, dumbed down hifi, or is there a problem with your system?

[davedotco]

Question for the people who hear differences ;

Can you describe the differences you hear between a MP3 (320kbps) track and a WAV track ?

Is it the timing, dynamics, more detail ??

Check out the last few posts in 'The Devialet Thread'.

Those are the kind of differences I expect to hear, ambience, reproduced acoustic, 'body' etc.

Though when I go to the trouble to set up some kind of blind test, they are very difficult to pick indeed, not saying that they are not there, but swamped by other differences of production or system set up.

 

[Cypher]

But altruistic.lemon says he can hear 'clear differences'. I wonder what those clear differences are ?

 

[davedotco]

But altruistic.lemon says he can hear 'clear differences'. I wonder what those clear differences are ?

Not sure, but you should never underestimate the self confidence of Australians........

To put these diffences into context try the Dave Brubeck samples given in the Devialet thread, very similar but not the same.

Then try any of the tracks on the studio album compared to the live performances on disc 2. Artistically on a different level, far more important to search out the better performances/recordings than to worry about bit rate.

Listen to the overload on some of the live tracks, mic overload probably, always a problem with live recodings, the band invariably put more into a live take than the do in setup and soundcheck, doesn't matter if it is Dave Brubeck or Sham 69, always happens........ :rockout:

 

[cheeseboy]

Is it the timing, dynamics, more detail ??

the timing will never change. It's an odd red herring that's come from somewhere, not sure where, but people still refer to it.

 

[Alec]

Is it the timing, dynamics, more detail ??

the timing will never change. It's an odd red herring that's come from somewhere, not sure where, but people still refer to it.

Some may suggest it comes from PRaTs.

Edited for typo.

 

[jimmy1]

really heavy bass lines sound better in lossless to my ears. 320mp3 loses some bass imho