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You'd probably notice it with better audio gear.
Absolutely.
I had gone awhile without buying any albums on cd. Icky Thump by the White Stripes came out, I downloaded it and had been jamming it in the car every day.
I took a friend out shopping and seen a copy and thought, “You know what? I want the album art.”
I took my burned cd out of the player and put the actual release on there.
“Boodoodwiddle dah boom boom boom boom boom boom boom, bah dah bow!!!”
I couldn’t believe how powerful it sounded.
I only fucked with flac after that.
You need to do spectral analysis too to see if it's not upscale from 320bit
Exactly. Speakers make the difference. My car audio has a better range then my home setup. I haven't gotten a subwoofer for my home. But the same songs from my phone sound a million times better in my car than on my home audio setup. Great speakers with a cheap head unit will sound better than the most expensive unit using cheap crappy speakers.
Yeah, bass suffers a lot.
It's the same with movies. The difference between Netflix and a Blu-ray with Dolby TrueHD or DTS-MA is night and day on a half decent home theatre setup. On TV speakers you'd likely hear no difference at all.
It completely depends. 320kbps CBR or V0 VBR should be audibly transparent under just about all conceivable circumstances, and that's still a fraction of the size of a typical lossless FLAC. Under the vast majority of conditions (humans, gear, audio and listening environment) you can safely get away with lower bitrate with no ability to reliably tell the difference in a double-blind test. You don't collect lossless audio for audio quality during normal playback, you collect it for archival correctness (and because space is cheap).
My personal library weighs in at 476GB currently, so please don't mistake me for a FLAC hater.