Ambient384
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Yeah AAC is 2nd when It comes to having support and I'm willing to agree that It blows MP3 out the water at 192kbps VBR after testing FHG AAC & Apple AAC more.
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The state of lossy audio in 2022.
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Ambient384
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The gap is very wide 160kbps AAC is transparent at 100% with FHG covering other stuff that chokes on QAAC, while I need 256kbps MP3 to come close at 98% quality wise.
My ears are getting more lossy for each year that passes.
Probably the reason why I couldn't tell any difference between the Hydrogenaudio's original castanet.wav and the 1999 Xing 64kbps MP3 encode on my Topping E50 + iLoud monitors. Before that I thought 64kbps would be an obvious slam dunk degradation like music coming out from a cellphone speaker.