Are you an audiophile?

Originally Posted by Rollins

I would be happy with 96 kbps music as long as it worked, haha.

Yeah I used to be sorta like that as well... except now I can tell the diff. between below 128 and 128 and above. I can also detect between 320 and 128, but not minor things like 190 vs 160... I guess I'm just not that much of an wannabe audiophile.

For me though, VBR and 192 has become the defacto standard. I also am going to try and get FLAC for what I want to 'archive' to CD. Like Mucknuggle, I'm only a wannabe

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by PiccoloNamek

"Oh yes, there's too much mid-bass, the midtones are muddy, and the highs are a bit too rolled off." Ugh. Some of the people on the Head-fi forums are especially bad about this. One of them just made a post stating that he had spent $5000 on headphones and amps since finding that forum. Five-thousand dollars? What a waste. Nobody needs a pair of AKG K-1000 headphones. (Headspeakers?)

In that case, I'm not even close to an audiophille, I shall take the monkier "Enthusiast", or maybe "Appreciator" or something like that :laugh:

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Originally Posted by Megalith

Let me tell you all a little secret.

Nobody actually stores lossless formats on drives, unless they are serving the releases.

Oh yeah? Well I got an OST in FLAC, and I'm not serving it out on #gamemp3.

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Even if I wanted to become an audiophille, I am partly deaf in one ear, so that limits just how well I can detect stuff. Don't get me wrong, I can plainly tell the difference between a 256kbps VBR song and a 128kbps CBR song, and I have made an effort to get all my music to at least 192kbps as a minimum, but its not done yet, or in a few cases, too much work right now. I do appreciate high quality in my music, but when it becomes more important then just enjoying the songs, then there's a problem.

Plus, if I were to have all of my music in Lossless, I'd need to get a whole new External Hard Drive, as mine couldn't hold it all.

I do love my Sennheiser HD 201 Headphones though.

So to answer poll: No.

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