What is the best audio format to get the best sound quality?
Mp3, Wav, Flac… Which one is better?
We’ve heard so many discussions about whether mp3 can sound the same as wav or flac and there are advocates for both.
There are people who staunchly defend mp3 and show and prove that an mp3 generated with certain settings can sound so similar to a WAV that not even 1% of people with ear training can distinguish it.
Others, on the contrary, argue that the method used by the mp3, causes a lot of information to be discarded in order to make the file smaller and this necessarily causes the quality to be diminished.
But everyone forgets that the number one point is to think about what kind of device or audio player we will listen to the music. Because for all these niceties mentioned above to make sense, we’ll have to have equipment that can play HD audio, otherwise we won’t easily tell one from the other.
And the truth is that most people play music on a medium quality equipment in a car on a phone or on a laptop, which makes the question of whether an mp3 sounds very different from a wav is unnecessary.
Mp4Gain is a program that manages to make audio, whatever the format, sound the best it can be.
