FLAC audio - for the audiophiles!

[bobotheclown]

I was just reading up on a review of Daft Punk's Random Access Memories and in the article it mentioned FLAC 24/96. Intrigued I googled it and discovered that vinyl (of all things) are digitized and encoded at 24bits/96000 Hz which according to the article is better quality than CD! 

downside is that each track can be around the 100Mb in size.

Amazing what can be done with the good old vinyl album.

[Bellend]

FLAC is awesome and a clear difference is noticed with decent quality headphones.

One of the many reasons I want a dedicated car PC in the MK3.

[andy_k]

the coding may allow for better than CD quality but it's unlikely that your modern head unit, speakers or even headphones are up to the same standard.

Neither are most turntables, budget (below a few hundred pounds) cartridges offer roughly the same range as a CD player.

Listening in the car - forget true hi-fi unless you have a ridiculous budget and are happy to build completely ground up.

FLAC 24/96 is indeed wonderful but most hi-fis won't do it justice

[Bellend]

the coding may allow for better than CD quality but it's unlikely that your modern head unit, speakers or even headphones are up to the same standard.

Neither are most turntables, budget (below a few hundred pounds) cartridges offer roughly the same range as a CD player.

Listening in the car - forget true hi-fi unless you have a ridiculous budget and are happy to build completely ground up.

FLAC 24/96 is indeed wonderful but most hi-fis won't do it justice

I have an expensive taste in heaphones.

[andy_k]

the coding may allow for better than CD quality but it's unlikely that your modern head unit, speakers or even headphones are up to the same standard.

Neither are most turntables, budget (below a few hundred pounds) cartridges offer roughly the same range as a CD player.

Listening in the car - forget true hi-fi unless you have a ridiculous budget and are happy to build completely ground up.

FLAC 24/96 is indeed wonderful but most hi-fis won't do it justice

I have an expensive taste in heaphones.

So do I (Sennheiser HD598s) but I also have expensive taste in what they are plugged into and the sound source

[bobotheclown]

so agree that it depends on the turntable, cartridge and also the amp too to get the most out of the digitizing process. What I find interesting is that they are digitizing vinyl which has different properties to CD. I've read that vinyl has a warmer sound, less tinny/robotic.

[justalex81]

lossless audio sounds awesome compared to an mp3. You can import your cd's onto your pc in flac format. each track is approx 30-50mb. You do need a very good sound card and speakers to appreciate it though

[Organisys]

the coding may allow for better than CD quality but it's unlikely that your modern head unit, speakers or even headphones are up to the same standard.

Neither are most turntables, budget (below a few hundred pounds) cartridges offer roughly the same range as a CD player.

Listening in the car - forget true hi-fi unless you have a ridiculous budget and are happy to build completely ground up.

FLAC 24/96 is indeed wonderful but most hi-fis won't do it justice

This. Except most HiFi does do it justice in comparrison to mp3!

I rip all the CDs I buy to FLAC for storage on a NAS, and playback on a Sonos.

 

[dTEA]

So remind me why did we stop making vinyl again? 

Because only a few give a crap and the rest will DL for free if possible or put up with poor quality youtube audio rips etc. lets see how many tracks exist in the future when the hard drives have failed.