Is there really a big gap between lossless music and normal music?
I personally think there is a big difference
I just bought the Sony A55HN recently, and all of the following tests were heard with the a55 and its included headphones. Blind listening method: put the two sound quality files of one song into a folder, then let my friend press the next song a random number of times, listen to A first, listen to B after listening, then listen to A, then say A High or low sound quality.
I heard it twice:
First time was MP3 (320k) format downloaded from NetEase Cloud compared to FLAC (48khz/24bit) format purchased from Mora
The second time was the “lossless” FLAC format (44.1khz/16bit) downloaded from Netease Cloud, which also compared the FLAC format (48khz/24bit) purchased from Mora.
I listened to 2 songs in total, and the results were obvious 4 times. When I listened to A for the second time, I could tell within 10 seconds if it was normal or lossless.
Even if Dafa’s dsee hx is on, you can still hear the difference.
Is there really a big gap between lossless music and normal music?
Music that is listened to or downloaded online is generally divided into various grades: smooth, high-quality, high-quality, and lossless.
These different grades of music are all digitally encoded, but the encoding format is different. As a 3 minute song, the smoothness is only 1-2M, and the loss is up to 20M. Therefore, different music formats have different amounts of information and different sound quality.
With a low-end music player, such as a mobile phone, the difference between smooth and lossless is not obvious, but with a slightly higher-end music player, you can hear the difference.
Is there really a big gap between lossless music and normal music?
Under the conditions of the same playback device and the same audio source, the quality of lossless music files is better than that of distorted compressed music files, but the difference depends on the format of the music file. My own experience is that a 320k bitrate distorted compressed mp3 file is about the same as lossless, and looks a bit dull in the very high register, which occasionally happens on big band recordings. A 256k mp3 file doesn’t have a noticeable effect on small bands or singing. 128k mp3 files are good enough for pop songs, but the sound starts to muffle. 96k mp3 files have no problem hearing the voice, such as Mr. Hou Baolin’s cross talk.
