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epsilon72 on 08 October 2008
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theRepublic said:
kabhold said:
theRepublic said:

The vast majority of people can't even tell the difference between high and low quality sound.  That is way most people don't bring it up.

You mention that BluRay has better ease of use than DVD, please explain.  From what I know, the only ease of use benefit is the scratch resistance.

Anyone can tell the difference between high quality and low quality sound.  Hard of hearing excluded of course.

 I think what you may mean is care about quality of sound.  Which many bluray owners do.  It's all about technological enthuisasm.  Which I like :)

http://www.slate.com/id/2163508?nav=aias

"Studies have found that as long as you're using high-quality encoding software, music compressed to a bitrate of 128 kbps or more is "transparent"—in other words, most listeners can't distinguish it from CD quality."

I'll say it again.  Most people can't tell the difference between high and low quality sound.

Well...I'm not most people.  GIMME MAH LOSSLESS!

In all seriousness, 128kbps doesn't sound downright bad...more like 'meh', at least to me.  I can hear a difference between mp3's with a higher bitrate than that and lossless, even - if I'm listening on the right speakers.  You're right though, most people probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference at even lower bitrates (lower than 128..)