Are you an audiophile?

I'd defiantly say that I'm an audiophile. As of more recently I've been trying to obtain all the video game music in lossless quality as I can. Its been going well actually. My codec of choice is FLAC, mostly because it's easy to use and it has a nice decoder so that if I decide to encode in something like m4a I could easily do that.

I guess that I'm one of those people that have "golden ears" as it's called, I can actually tell the difference between audio encoded with 320cbr and lossless.

Well anyway it seems that I've resurrected an old thread; let the debate continue.

By the way I think this forum is awesome for its having lossless video game music so readily available. Thanks for that.

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At any rate, I sincerely doubt you could pass a double-blind test comparing 320kbps mp3s and FLAC files. Nobody's perception is that acute.

Why not? I've been comparing them for awhile now. But for the most part, like I've said before, it's not just the CD quality accurateness of lossless but also its ease of use when encoding/decoding and changing to different formats.

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What kind of audio system do you have?

Just a nice pair of headphones. I can hear more accurately with these anyway.

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Pass a double-blind test with all variables (such as volume level) accounted for, and I'll believe you.

OK I'll try this, where is it? Who knows, you might prove me wrong, I'll still prefer lossless though.

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As for your system, what kind of headphones? Amplifier? Source? Cables? (If any, personally, I am not a believer in cables.)

Nothing fancy just a 15$ pair of COBY headphones. Although I am using some really nice third party drivers for my SB Audigy Z/S 2 sound card, they've made everything sound better.

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Ha! Well I'm still an audiophile, just a broke audiophile.

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