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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
That's the whole point of that particular argument
Listen, I'm on the 'an interconnect is an interconnect' bandwagon, but I do recognize that there are some qualities to some wires that can color what's reproduced. Whether that's good or bad, better or worse is a matter of taste.
My main point was your seeming derision of anyone who thinks there's better content out there than an MP3, or any way of making things sound better than a boombox.
MP3s are missing information that CDs possess and generally lose sound quality, be it to compression or bitrate.
CDs are 44.1 kHz, which while a decent bitrate is still a sampling of the true music. There are some high quality DACs that turn that information into a very smooth reproduction, some even approach good analog playback, but for the most part quality crafted SACDs/DVD-As and vinyl gives an objectively better experience.
And it's not just about hearing some absurdly high frequency, it's about closer approximation of the actual linear analog sound produced live.
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I understand that to an extent, and yes information is left out, but it's not perceptible to the human ear. I believe psychoacoustics > someone's desire to hear something. There are shitty MP3's out there, but a 192 or 256K MP3 file, let alone FLAC is imperceptibly compared to a CD. MP3s cut out the stuff we can't hear to reduce file size, and FLAC does an even better job with said compression, which is why it is lossless.
Did you read that .pdf, because it basically rebuts your entire argument, whether it be the superiority of vinyl or what is and is not left out of MP3.
Granted we are going to have to agree to disagree, because you are invested in your stance and it's quite obvious that nothing will budge you from it.