
I donr know what they're hearing but I dont stop the format they enjoy dancing to ! Spotify does not know my background or wha gear I own !! My dolphin, monkey, dogs & bats friends, groove to the high rez music i play. And not deciding for us what is best in formats for us to hear. Spotify should be giving customers what they want especially to their premium subscriptions. I feel more energies, details & depth dynamics from my vinyl, less noise from SACD, Sterile presentation from MiniDisc, distortion & noise galore from WAV, Details & Dynamics lost in MQA.īottom line its silent invisible people like us who move the market into research and better products, creating jobs, passions and pursuits. But also energies invisible to the eye and ear. It is not just about what we see and hear. Whether its Mp3 / Vinyl / Hi-Rez formats / gear, music & video. Also I have no limitations to cost as far as getting the best media and equipment money can buy for my customers, staff & company. I only finalise what my "Golden Ears" perceive. However I just wanna put my penny thoughts, without getting technical, I leave that to my staff. I own a couple of recording studios around the world and boutique AV gear, cabling, ancillary equipments costing well over 5M US$. moreI learnt alot more from your post.Thank you for your tremendous insight on how its actually done and delivered. The actual correct term is High Fidelity (Hi-Fi). When bits can’t be accurately placed, they often cause clipping distortion which generates harmonics and other unpleasant artifacts.Īlthough lossy formats often use a sampling rate of 44.1kHz, just like a CD and some PCM files, the amount of information present at each sample or its bit-rate will vary.Anonymous, Yea absolutely. When the bit-depth is reduced, so is the accuracy with which bits of information are stored or quantized. The bit-depth plays a huge part in accurately storing information at specific amplitudes. Because Tidal uses lossless files, you’ll rarely run into aliasing, clipping, or other forms of audio degradation.

Lossy files on the other hand use a variable bit-depth to reduce the file size. Lossless files have a set bit depth, meaning it stays the same throughout the song. There is also a big difference between lossless and lossy when it comes to the bit-depth. Lossy files delete data in areas of the frequency response that are difficult to hear – the file size is smaller but the quality is reduced. Lossless files compile data that is redundant, making for a smaller file size but one that is unpack-able with all of its original information.

Why Do Lossless Files Sound Better than Lossy Files? In it, we test an MP3, a Wav, and an AAC file using a blind test to figure out which one is the best.
