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originally posted in:Music
1/11/2013 1:49:32 AM
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Necessity For Audio Quality
My question to you guys is if audio quality in your music is really a necessity.
Our generation has recently been trained to acquire and or listen to their music through various streaming services such as spotify, pandora, or youtube. These services are by no means the providers of the highest possible quality of audio.
However, lately we have also been seeing a push by some people for lossless music (FLAC).
So my question to you, at this point does audio quality really make a huge difference for you? If it is too low quality, does it ruin it for you, or are you just there to enjoy the music regardless?
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I've recently acquired a set of Klipsch S4i earbuds, and the quality through them is oustanding. In other, more general terms, high music quality is a must.
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i used to try and get everything in FLAC format but since my new player doesn't play them i've had to reacquire most of my songs at lower quality. space is an issue as well. 1 or 2 artists in FLAC is fine but when you have nearly 3000 songs and most of them are in FLAC format; that's a huge amount of space you need to find from somewhere and extra space is expensive.
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1 ReplyI love FLAC, that's my necessity. I can live with .wav and 320kbps .mp3s too... LOL. But yeah, I'm always looking for the highest quality in music. If not my headphones and speakers would just be terribly used. Right now I'm listening to my new LP disk. Skrillex - More Monster Ans Sprites EP. =)
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I don't listen to anything lower than v0 if it can be avoided. I've been redownloading a lot of music in FLAC lately since I have a bigger hard drive now.
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Audio quality? Well yeah if it's like a 240p video on Youtube that sounds like coins rattling in a can, then yes. If they just use lo-fi production like in Black Metal? Hell naw, that's just part of the sound.
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Quality only needs to be decent enough so that it isn't grainy and I can hear all the little details if I pay attention. But there also needs to be bass. I love dat bass.
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It's nice but to me it's by no means a deal breaker.
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I enjoy higher qualities.
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Once I hear something in high quality, it is hard for me to go back. Like going from 200 dollar Sennheiser headphones to 10 dollar iFrogz or something. It's hard for me to do, but I can bear it at least. :P
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It's always nice to hear things in a higher quality, but if a song is good it doesn't matter how poor the quality is. Example above, 240p and bad production for the album but one heck of a song.
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I think Spotify is nice...
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This is my era so I'm not too fussy.
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Edited by jbh0220: 1/11/2013 7:13:47 AMIn audio there is too much focus on bass, but lowering bass and raising the treble filters create for some great uncompressed tuning. In fact, raising your subwoofers too much is usually what causes audio deterioration (through both loudness of background noise and general hearing loss. Never turn Beats Headphones all the way up when you're listening to a solidly-produced album raised to +2 dB of its original score).
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It matters in some genres more than others. The more synth and computer heavy something gets, the less that the subtleties that you'd find with more organic instruments is noticeable. Truth be told, I think it's the sound equipment that matters more than the music file. Besides, there is really is no comparison between listening to a recording of a piano piece and hearing a high level performance of it.
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2 RepliesDepends. If I'm listening to a nice sound system, quality would matter. But if I'm trying to stream some music on my phone from the train, then quality is not as important as actually being able to listen to the music without any buffering.
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For my genre of music, audio quality is a HUGE necessity, that and the deliverance of the music through headphones. I prefer only Apple headphones, I know, shoot me, but honestly, their new design feeds the sound straight into your ear canal. It's gorgeous. With all my music I try to find 320kbps MP3, I try to attain the highest quality possible for the best listening experience. I just...can't deal with anything else. If possible, I download FLAC and use a nifty little program I've got on my Mac to convert it to the highest possible MP3 quality for my iPod. I prefer higher quality because I love to hear music as if it was happening right in front of me, not in headphones. Full, 5.1/7 channel stereo, surround channels, the works, I prefer to have it all, just because that's how I prefer my listening experience. It's not actually so much listening to music, it's actually (an I prefer) to call it a journey.
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I have to be able to hear everything clearly on the drums, and the vox cannot be skewed. If it sounds like the drummer is hitting a splash instead of a china, then time to find a better version. Or if it sounds like the vox are mumbling instead of growling/pig-squealing, then it's time to find a better version.
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If I can get lossless, I will. If not, I try not to worry too much It's more enjoyable if it's better quality though
