sam here as misstl pointed out if he does a vinyl to digital transfer it sounds the same however when the record company does the same thing with the master source the sound is not there? and to suggest the finest producers in the world are not aware of this is pure crap! they don't get to play the stupid card
has anybody else noticed this about flac audio?
o.k are you ready for some truth friends ? flac has compression levels from 0 to 8 with the official flac default level being 5. now flac is lossless compression so there should be no sound loss from the original source no matter what compression level you use however if you encode the same song using every different flac compression level even though they will all be lossless there absolutely is a difference in the overall sound including tone and sound stage from level to level and doing your own test will only prove me right. now here’s where it gets strange? vintage vinyl has stereo + stereo depth perception (3d sound stage).digital audio has stereo + mono depth perception (2d sound stage) and this includes all new remastered vinyl cut from the digital master. this is why digital audio does not sound like vintage vinyl along with brick wall compression.i find it odd that the only flac compression level not recommended as a default no matter what software you use is flac compression level 4 ? it just so happens that re-encoding digital audio to flac with compression level 4 converts digital mono depth perception back into digital stereo depth perception (3d sound stage) just like vintage vinyl! and i don’t think this is by mistake friends ? do your own test and get ready to have your mind blown. here is an audio sample: level 5 http://pc.cd/pCcrtalK level 4 http://pc.cd/iVWrtalK
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sam here thanks for responding stereo depth perception is a term i came up with to explain what i'm hearing with flac compression level 4 compared to wave and all other flac compression levels which have stereo + mono depth perception making the audio sound 2 dimensional and flac 4 sounding 3 dimensional. i also hear this three dimensional sound on vintage vinyl. i have tested this with foobar2000 / jriver media center 23 / audacity 2.1.0 / weiss saracon 1.61.27 / sony soundforge pro 10 / free audio converter 6.5 / using a dell pc running windows 7. played back the audio using both windows pc and sandisc mp3 player and the results are the same. re-encoding audio to flac compression level 4 converts the audio to sound like vintage vinyl. |
sam here thanks for all the input.i am by no means an audiophile and i don't mind someone saying i'm full of crap? i understand how crazy this sounds however there is a noticeable difference between vintage vinyl and digital audio and i believe that difference can be greatly reduced by re-encoding to flac with compression level 4 my test prove it to my ears perhaps somebody could do a quick re-encode and do there own a/b test? also when i made a 1 gb virtual hard drive from my pc's ram memory and import audio into the virtual ram drive and play the audio from the ram the sound quality is improved 100% like listening to the studio master tape can somebody explain this? |
sam here and i'm not saying there is anything wrong with flac please listen to these two cd audio samples re-encoded using Aul converteR 48x44 sample 1 is flac compression level 0 sample 2 is flac compression level 4.same source 1) http://pc.cd/R77otalK 2) http://pc.cd/CgV if these 2 samples sound the same i'm losing my mind? the only difference is flac 0 and flac 4. |
guitarsam here and i am not an audiophile and i realize that it makes no sense that flac with compression level 4 should sound any different than any other level. i can accept that i’m fooling myself and my ears maybe fooling me. she by gram parsons ripped from cd with jriver media center 23 to flac (0) and flac (4) what i believe i hear is a more open soundstage with more stereoness to the music on flac (4) flac (0) http://pc.cd/QzzotalK flac (4) http://pc.cd/XBS |