It still amazes me that the word MP3 and audiophile can show up within a hundred paragraphs of each other. Spending a bunch of coin on expensive buds, headphones, or speakers to listen to smooshed, compressed music seems foolish to me.
Maybe when 1TB sdcards come out, their will be a way to listen clean, unsquish SA-CD quality audio on our phones. :O
LOL, fair points. But I think even those w/golden ears can't tell the difference between 256kbps and uncompressed in blind tests. Spotify claims to offer 320kbps to premium users, and after some initial misinformation it seems that 90%+ of their songs really are available at that high rate.
If you care about the quality of your music, you should worry a lot more about the Loudness war that has yielded awful master recordings in recent decades.
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