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"People bought Beats headphones because of a perception of quality, even if the reality fell far shorter. Mulligan told us that in audio, perception is all-important.
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Apple also said that "keeping the highest-resolution masters available in our systems allows for full advantage of future improvements to your or your client's music" so it has the capability to switch to lossless streaming in future. Nevertheless, the company asks for high-resolution files from music producers because it then has the best source for encoding for AAC. Compact discs' 44.1kHz rate is adequate for this need." "The highest frequency audible to humans is around 20kHz therefore a sampling rate of over 40kHz is required to accurately capture the audible range of frequencies. "Making decisions about gain levels, dynamic range, and frequency response is what mastering is all about," said its paper on the subject. The idea is that louder music is more likely to be noticed and therefore streamed or purchased, never mind that it reduces the quality for discerning listeners.Īpple Digital Masters, formerly "mastered for iTunes", is a voice of sanity in that it emphasises mastering decisions above formats. Talking of dynamic range, the music industry is also notorious for deliberately reducing it in order to increase the perceived loudness of recorded music.
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Many Bluetooth devices use SBC (sub-band codec) and manufacturers do not always bother with better (though still lossy) formats like Qualcomm aptX – because it is not the biggest factor in the perceived audio quality. Listeners with wireless earphones will generally lose the lossless element in the final wireless connection.
The audio transducers, microphones, and loudspeakers remain the largest source of distortion in the audio chain from studio to listener. When the sampling rate is increased the frequency response improves, but even CD quality at 44.1kHz extends to over 20kHz (half the sampling rate is the theoretical maximum), which is beyond the hearing range of most humans.Īudiophiles talk about required digital filters harming the sound, or high frequencies being perceived but not heard, but if there are differences, they are hard to discern and the details and "many little weird things" mentioned by O’Connell are not under threat. When bit depth is increased in PCM format audio, the potential dynamic range (the difference between the quietest and loudest sounds) increases, but even CD quality has dynamic range beyond the requirements of most music. High-resolution audio is different from CD quality but how much of the additional data is audible? Very little, according to most studies, which is unsurprising. No such experiment is definitive (particularly with only a small sample) it can always be argued that with a different selection of music, or different playback equipment, or different ears, the benefits of lossless audio will be revealed, but studies that demonstrate this are hard to find. The result showed that that 52 per cent preferred the MP3, 30 per cent the lossless audio, and 18 per cent could not tell the difference.
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In 2013, audio blogger Archimage conducted a survey to test the audibility of uncompressed audio versus 320kbps MP3 in a blind (unless you cheated) experiment so listeners did not know which was which. There are compromises but the difference between Apple Music's humble 256kbps AAC and a lossless CD quality file is hard to hear. Lossless formats are a neat technical solution to the fact that uncompressed formats store data that humans cannot hear.
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