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  1. Sigh, why is it that everyone wants to argue with every bloody thing without doing any research themselves and just opposing anything that goes against their existing views (and not providing reasons for doing so either)

    See, you all fail to realise that I also seriously considered ripping all my CDs to lossless for my iPhone, but instead of simply assuming that it would be better, I actually did my research and saw that it was overkill.

    If the acknowledged experts say putting lossless music on your iPod is a big waste of space, then please argue with them instead of me.

    I was merely presenting an expert opinion, not just some whim of mine because I have nothing better to do with my time.
  2. Originally posted by vanquish:[..]




    Sigh, why is it that everyone wants to argue with every bloody thing without doing any research themselves and just opposing anything that goes against their existing views (and not providing reasons for doing so either)

    See, you all fail to realise that I also seriously considered ripping all my CDs to lossless for my iPhone, but instead of simply assuming that it would be better, I actually did my research and saw that it was overkill.

    If the acknowledged experts say putting lossless music on your iPod is a big waste of space, then please argue with them instead of me.

    I was merely presenting an expert opinion, not just some whim of mine because I have nothing better to do with my time.



    So you seriously considered ripping your cds to lossless but stopped because some random 'expert' said it was a waste of space? Fuck off. I can hear the difference and my player has sufficent space.

    Who were these 'experts'? Be your own expert for once. Rip your own music and see what you think. If you hear no difference that's not to say that the difference doesn't exist, it just means YOU can't hear it. Jeese.
  3. Loving the bastard. It's too slim though.Volume buttons are impossible to use without dropping the whole thing. The screen is truly amazing. The icons look almost 3D.

    Is it possible to love an iPod touch but hate iPhones with a passion?

    You can hate iPhones 'cos of the mandatory contracts you gotta go with. That's why I went a touch - games, music and without more costs per month.
    I hate the buttons on the side. I mean they're great convenience for that if you're coming from an older touch but hardware buttons suck - why not touch-sensitive ones? I love the fact though the calculator icon is 3D-looking on a normal screen but the other icons look almost 1D. Too funny.


    Sigh, why is it that everyone wants to argue with every bloody thing without doing any research themselves and just opposing anything that goes against their existing views (and not providing reasons for doing so either)

    See, you all fail to realise that I also seriously considered ripping all my CDs to lossless for my iPhone, but instead of simply assuming that it would be better, I actually did my research and saw that it was overkill.

    If the acknowledged experts say putting lossless music on your iPod is a big waste of space, then please argue with them instead of me.

    I was merely presenting an expert opinion, not just some whim of mine because I have nothing better to do with my time.

    It depends on what you can hear. If you have loads of CDs then a mix of lossless-lossy is alright - specially if you got like 200 you just wanna shove the whole lot on there. For maybe 20 albums I'd go lossless considering when I rip an album it goes from WAV to MP3 anyway - so save the hassle of that.

    I went lossy because I had a minimum of space before and no laptop to store them on. Now I have 32GB and 1TB of space, it doesn't worry me so much. For my remixes and demos I'll do lossless always but for normal stuff it doesn't warrant the lossless route. That said, I can hear the difference and maybe one day I'll get round to doing proper lossless rips.


    So you seriously considered ripping your cds to lossless but stopped because some random 'expert' said it was a waste of space? Fuck off. I can hear the difference and my player has sufficent space.

    You do what's best for you. Not what someone else wants you to do. Trying to get away from calculated opinions I have for a while now and random experts only shit me off.
  4. In other news I have just negotiated the sale of the new iPod touch. Oh dear. Gonna put the cash towards the iphone 4
  5. A few posts ago you said you loved the iPod and hated iPhones lol what happened?


  6. A bus journey. Web on the iPod is great but no wi-fi. So what I do is tether my 3g connection from my mobile so that I can browse on the iPod. Then I figured why bother carrying both devices? I hate having stuff in my pockets so 1 device is required. Android isn't there yet, Nokia ain't great for web browsing so the iPhone wins. I still hate them but i'll start playing Crazy Birds again and all will be well.
  7. Originally posted by vanquish:[..]




    Sigh, why is it that everyone wants to argue with every bloody thing without doing any research themselves and just opposing anything that goes against their existing views (and not providing reasons for doing so either)

    See, you all fail to realise that I also seriously considered ripping all my CDs to lossless for my iPhone, but instead of simply assuming that it would be better, I actually did my research and saw that it was overkill.

    If the acknowledged experts say putting lossless music on your iPod is a big waste of space, then please argue with them instead of me.

    I was merely presenting an expert opinion, not just some whim of mine because I have nothing better to do with my time.



    I wasn't arguing with you. That smiley indicates that your post bored me. Tis all.
  8. Originally posted by germcevoy:[..]

    So you seriously considered ripping your cds to lossless but stopped because some random 'expert' said it was a waste of space? Fuck off. I can hear the difference and my player has sufficent space.

    Who were these 'experts'? Be your own expert for once. Rip your own music and see what you think. If you hear no difference that's not to say that the difference doesn't exist, it just means YOU can't hear it. Jeese.


    Not some random expert, a community of audiophiles - Hydrogenaudio is THE forum for anything to do with audio, in the same way that say interference is the U2 forum.

    If you can hearing differences it could be for a variety of reasons.
    1. The lossy rip was badly done or done from a different source to the lossless.
    2. The placebo effect (observation bias) which may cause you to 'hear' that the lossless actually sounds better.
    3. You can actually hear the difference - this is rare as normally only trained ears or those with extremely good hearing can hear differences - and normally only on certain sections of certain tracks (eg classical music or reverb heavy percussion). Again, get a frequency generator app on your iPhone and see how high a frequency you can still hear.

    The placebo effect is very real and can only be eliminated if you do a double blind listening test , where you have a program that lets you play the lossless track, a lossy rip and a unlabeled track (which can be either of the two) and by listening to the three you have to determine whether the unknown track is the lossy or lossless. Then you have to repeat this test for different songs to get a large enough sample size and accurate results.

    I did this test when I was deciding to go lossy or lossless and found I couldnt tell the difference.
    Perhaps I shall post an ABX test on here with U2 tracks and so you can see for yourself



    I see

    Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]
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    It depends on what you can hear. If you have loads of CDs then a mix of lossless-lossy is alright - specially if you got like 200 you just wanna shove the whole lot on there. For maybe 20 albums I'd go lossless considering when I rip an album it goes from WAV to MP3 anyway - so save the hassle of that.

    I went lossy because I had a minimum of space before and no laptop to store them on. Now I have 32GB and 1TB of space, it doesn't worry me so much. For my remixes and demos I'll do lossless always but for normal stuff it doesn't warrant the lossless route. That said, I can hear the difference and maybe one day I'll get round to doing proper lossless rips.


    Lossless files are great for archiving (in case you lose your CDs), it is possible to hear a difference between lossless and lossy but this depends on the quality of the rip. i.e anyone can hear the difference between 128kbps MP3 and lossless, generally MP3 is considered transparent at bitrates above 192 kbps, so if you're listening to a LAME v0 variable bitrate encoded MP3 there should be no discernable difference.

  9. It doesn't depend on the rip. It depends on the individual! Will you please stop treating your word as gosple. Interference.com is thee U2 fan forum so is that to say it is full of experts? No. It's full of fans sharing their opinions.

    If there are no differences between lossless and lossy then why the hell aren't CD's ripped with MP3's? I have a CD which is 400MB with all tracks. I rip it to (high quality) mp3 and that decreases to 100mb. What was the missing 300MB made up of?
  10. Originally posted by germcevoy:It doesn't depend on the rip. It depends on the individual! Will you please stop treating your word as gosple. Interference.com is thee U2 fan forum so is that to say it is full of experts? No. It's full of fans sharing their opinions.

    If there are no differences between lossless and lossy then why the hell aren't CD's ripped with MP3's? I have a CD which is 400MB with all tracks. I rip it to (high quality) mp3 and that decreases to 100mb. What was the missing 300MB made up of?


    But see, It's not my word as gospel! It's not my subjective opinion but rather objective fact backed up by thousands of listening tests. There is very little difference
    It's objective though, it's like saying

    As for your question, MP3 works by excluding frequencies outside the threshold of normal human hearing (ie. above 20khz) that are present on the CD. Then it also utilises a psychoacoustic concept called auditory masking where higher frequency tones are unable to be heard when other tones of lower frequency are played.

    Lastly the MP3 is also compressed (like FLACs and other lossless codecs are) which reduces the file size further.

    But enough talk, listen to these lossless vs lossy samples of Promenade I just made:
    http://rapidshare.com/files/422084456/Promenade.zip

    They're both made from the same WAV file I securely ripped from the UF remaster. One is FLAC and the other is high quality variable bitrate MP3 encoded using LAME.

    I chose Promenade because it's relatively short (making it easier to compare) and has a lot of atmospheric and ambient noises (which are harder to compress).

    Please listen to both files and tell me if you can hear any difference. And if you can hear differences, please tell me at what time you hear them.

  11. I don't need to prove my hearing ability to you because you simply don't believe that I can hear a difference. The fact is that some people can hear the difference. I don't care about your science or what somebody said on a forum. A true audiophile wouldn't be listening to mp3s.

    Promenade is a poor choice btw. No drums in it which is where I normally hear the difference in quality. There's very little in that song actually. All those remasters suffer from clipping anyway so not much use is comparing the samples.
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    To each their own.


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