Can You Hear The Difference Between A Record, A CD, An MP3, etc?
 

I believe the human ear can't tell the difference between a record and a CD, but below a CD things get kinda dicey.

What say you?

yes, 100%. Between a record, tape, CD there is a HUGE difference in sounds. MP3 even if the quality is not set to the highest, but no one uses that because MP3 files are meant to be smaller in size.

Ive been into car and home audio and can easily tell the difference even between DiVx movies and DVDs with sound

if you have good quality equipment, then yea you can tell the difference...

I wonder if better file formats are on the horizon?

I don't know if I could tell the difference or not but I prefer records anyway. I buy a lot of $1 albums in junk shops.

http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2009/03/...-test-128-320/

take the test see if you can detect the higher quality mp3

Cool site! I tried out a number of their tests. :thumbsup

pffft. The sound difference isn't much, and without decent speakers you'll never hear it.

Absolutely can tell the difference. Actually vinyl records played on really good equipment can have superior dynamics to CD.

See: http://www.stereophile.com/features/308mp3cd

For some reason, the bartenders in one of my local bars decided they could plug in their iPods to the bar's sound system, and everyone would groove with them. Maybe the twentysomethings who hit the bar on Friday and Saturday are actually semi-deaf, but those of us in the Classic Rock demographic could hear the difference. MP3's on your iPod might sound okay, but amplified and played through speakers it sounds like shit.

I still buy CD's, but I usually buy Classic Rock and Jazz albums, where I'm not interested in just one song, but the whole album.

If you cant tell the difference dont push it, knowing quality ruins it all.

not needed,there's such standard

http://flac.sourceforge.net/

Mp3s sound good... but play a high quality FLAC next to it...wow.... so much more!

hard drives are so cheap. I took to ripping all my CDs to lossless some time ago. Fuck an mp3. If you cannot differentiate between an mp3 and lossless, there's something wrong with your hearing.

No difference. They make shit like this just for fun:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dad7-_hwpn...%2526Tubes.jpg

I do laugh my socks of at the idiots that buy monster etc for digital stuff. It's 1s and 0s. It gets there or it doesn't. 500 quid HDMI leads. LOL. *that's* marketing!

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cd/vinyl vs 160kbps mp3 - yes i can
cd/vinyl vs 320kbps mp3 - hell no

It makes a difference your ear can here, without question, and sometimes your eyes can even see it.

My head unit costs more than most peoples entire systems and mine is a joke compared to what they go up to. Putting some crap shit cables on it, produces shit sound... every single time.

Vinyl have such a superior sounds compared to cd,you could think how someone actually playing in room.

Yes, A record is for domains. A CD and a MP3 is for music.

I listen to most of my music streaming through Rhapsody. I do still purchase the occasional CD. I can definitely tell the difference between CD and streaming quality. Though once I rip the CD to MP3, I'm not sure that I notice any difference between the CD and MP3.

Radio and tape is obviously worse off. I'm not sure about albums, I haven't had much experience with them.

i can't believe people are actually saying that vinyl is better... your grandfathers only said that because they enjoyed the nostalgia... why would you feel the need to perpetuate that? If it even came close to sounding better they would be recording peoples shit on it when they make master copies..wouldn't you say?

Save your music at 432Hz vs. 441Hz - You can "hear" and "feel" the difference in the music. Most music should never be recorded or saved at 441, but almost all of it is... 435 and down, produces FAR better quality sound. It actually should be created/recorded at those levels, converting it dilutes it a little, but you'll get the idea the second you hear it.

The argument seems to be over what is the best quality for casual listening.

Your last statement doesn't make much sense. I'm sure there is a better quality source than vinyl, I would guess some sort of digital. Are you listening to that master quality on another medium?

in this day and age we are at the point where we can completely reproduce the sound of vinyl on digital equipment. Your media is only as good as the amps, speakers, and processors you use