I think 320 kbps AAC (Tidal "High" quality) sounds a little better. And I think it (320 kbps ogg) sounds very good. And therefore usually aren't very good at properly testing the value (or lack thereof) of lossless-vs-lossy. In fact, I "probably prefer "good lossy" over "poorly-resampled-lossless".Īnd FWIW, most of these "online A-B test" webpages don't by-default put the user into a "good configuration" where they are bypassing the built-in-audio-resampler. In my experience, if FLAC files get played back via something like the built-in Windows eazy-peazy ("Direct Mode") audio player, and gets (poorly) resampled from 44.1 to 48 khz (for maximum compatibility and ease-of-use), it usually doesn't sound any better than a high-bitrate-lossy codec. Something like one of my Chromecast Audios or an Oppo UDP-203, not one of my NVidia Shields. Is played back on a streamer that supports the playback (and output) of the proper bitrate. In a way that bypasses the native Android Audio Renderer (using something like USB Audio Player Pro) if on an Android Device In some sort of "ALSA" mode (if on a Linux machine, as I am right now as I type this) In some sort of WASAPI exclusive mode (if on a Windows PC) I really can't hear any difference between lossy and lossless if I don't use a piece of software that outputs said flac files:
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