An mp3 has lower sound quality than a wav?
The format is used to know which audio file has the highest quality?
No, the answer is nmo for both questions.
The first thing that should be clearly stated is that what we call audio quality is expressed and only thought of in terms of human hearing, human ears.
Because we don’t listen like many animals. Each one has its most efficient frequencies and others that it does not perceive, according to its survival needs. Exactly how some animals see better in the dark or perceive colors differently, and all this has been so because of the environment where they live and where they must survive.
Even a child or teenager can often perceive that an adult cannot.
Then, we will have to understand that quality is not synonymous with an absolute capacity to reproduce all frequencies, but rather that for us quality is something that sounds in a certain way to the human ear.
With that understood, we will say that an mp3 with 192 kbs and 44100 or more samplerate is of sufficient quality and can hardly be distinguished from other formats.
Only less than 1% of the population can perceive a slight and uncertain difference if the mp3 has that quality.
We will see in other articles how it is that those frequencies that we cannot perceive are the ones used to compress the audio and that is why a good quality mp3, which only eliminated frequencies that the human ear cannot distinguish, sounds 99.9999999% the same as other files promoted as better quality.
