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Audiophiles?
« on: October 25, 2017, 07:44:09 PM »
Are any audiophiles here? I'd say I'm a learning g audiophile. I've always had that "ear" for sound and it's only grown with age. I'm able to tell distinct differences in sounds and frequencies and some day, when I have the money >.>, I want to have a huge audio setup to learn and play with to get the best sound.

Anyone else here kinda like that? :O

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Re: Audiophiles?
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2017, 11:20:14 AM »
if an audiophile is someone who only collects their music in Flac to ensure the highest quality then I guess I'm guilty. I guess I don't really care as long as an MP3 doesn't sound like It went through the washer after I port it to my phone, so that's why I collect the Flac files and convert them so I can guarantee the highest quality  :)
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Re: Audiophiles?
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2018, 10:08:14 PM »
if an audiophile is someone who only collects their music in Flac to ensure the highest quality then I guess I'm guilty. I guess I don't really care as long as an MP3 doesn't sound like It went through the washer after I port it to my phone, so that's why I collect the Flac files and convert them so I can guarantee the highest quality  :)

Hold up. Transferring MP3s to other devices lowers quality? If that's true, that explains why the music I dragged to various devices throughout the years started to sound like crap. I thought I improperly ripped them from the CDs as a kid and didn't realize until I got better headphones (/ taste).

Over time I've become more concerned with sound quality. Not to an audiophile degree, I don't think. I don't obsess over it or anything. And to an audiophile my headset is probably a cheap piece of crap. It does the job fine, in my opinion, though I'd like to get a better set if I had the money and other priorities straightened out.

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Re: Audiophiles?
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2018, 04:14:43 AM »
Hold up. Transferring MP3s to other devices lowers quality? If that's true, that explains why the music I dragged to various devices throughout the years started to sound like crap. I thought I improperly ripped them from the CDs as a kid and didn't realize until I got better headphones (/ taste).

Over time I've become more concerned with sound quality. Not to an audiophile degree, I don't think. I don't obsess over it or anything. And to an audiophile my headset is probably a cheap piece of crap. It does the job fine, in my opinion, though I'd like to get a better set if I had the money and other priorities straightened out.

That's not true. MP3 can be perfectly fine and the only thing that will degrade it is actively re-encoding it; The same way just opening and looking at a jpg won't degrade it (common misconception), it's every time you modify and save it that degrades it.

Most likely it's just low-quality MP3 files from the start and you only gradually started noticing it over time.

That said, it's possible with Apple-devices (iphone, ipod) that it might degrade a little over time since these sometimes like to convert your music to Apple-friendly formats like AAC.
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Re: Audiophiles?
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2018, 11:52:38 PM »
Haha, I study Audio so i guess you could say i'm at least a semi-audiophile haha!

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Re: Audiophiles?
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2018, 11:57:09 PM »
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currently burning my whole cd collection (probably over 10000 discs) into iTunes... nothing better to do while I heal from surgery, so...

Disc in... disc out... repeat ad nuaseum...
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« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2018, 12:06:43 AM »
That doesn't sound too fun! Good luck with healing from your surgery though, i'm sure the music will help you through it! :)

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Re: Audiophiles?
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2018, 12:08:41 AM »
It's actually not bad, good computer, loads most pretty quickly.. Been working on it all week, have 44.5GB loaded, and only about 1/2 way thru..

This is the second time.. previous external drive tanked..
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« Reply #8 on: January 22, 2018, 12:10:55 AM »
Dang, i usually don't get too much trouble with external drives! I'm currently labouring over the mix of some self-produced music and i'm starting to lose focus.

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Re: Audiophiles?
« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2018, 12:16:25 AM »
well then, focus on what you're doing!!!!

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