Album Rating: 4.5
yeah it's pretty thicc
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lmao
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Album Rating: 4.5
lol. 128 sounds like shit.
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Album Rating: 4.5
makes sense!
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Album Rating: 4.5
nah it really does makes sense, thats not the point though.
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gentlemen lets settle this argument
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERPvSvA_Khk
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Album Rating: 4.5
obviously 128 is enough to let you determine their songwriting skills. its still not going to sound as good as a higher quality audio file. theres more clutter with lower bitrate audio. drums especially suffer from low bitrate.
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Album Rating: 4.5
or thats just my personal standard.
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sach im stating the obvious here but some (id argue the vast majority of) albums are supposed to be experienced with high fidelity files/speakers. It's almost insulting to the artist to suggest that 128 is sufficient when you're dealing with a dynamic nuanced soundscape (possibly like this idk i haven't listened to it)
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I would never listen to metal at 128 kbps, that's just begging for some kind of hearing damage
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Great review, this is one of my most anticipated metal albums this year. I generally try to avoid anything under 192, but prefer 320.
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Bitrate may not matter to you personally but it definitely makes a difference in how it sounds. Past a certain point it gets far less relevant but 128 vs 320 is a significant jump.
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Evaluate, sure, but it's a lot more enjoyable at a better quality. I can wait for my record to ship lol.
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Album Rating: 4.0
What's a VBR type audio? Usually coupled with around 228kbps
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VBR is variable bitrate, which basically encodes frequencies for the best trade off in terms of sound quality vs. disk space. CBR just cuts the frequencies off at a certain point (320 is ~20khz, 128 is ~15-16khz).
V0 is the VBR equivalent of 320 CBR, except the files are about ~15% smaller but with the same quality. It's pretty clever so idk why it isn't used more often.
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How much music are you trying to encode on a regular basis for that to actually be an issue?
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Album Rating: 4.5
VBR V0 is pretty awesome, but in a lot of cases you can tell the difference between V0 and 320, so in the end I think it's better that the latter is much more widespread.
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a lot of supposed V0 rips are shitty transcodes tho, gotta watch out for them
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Album Rating: 4.5
That goes for a bunch of 320 too, mainly stuff that leaks early or right around release date. I do the frequency test in Audacity when I'm not certain.
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i can't afford to tell the difference between 128 and 420 but i won't let that stop me from throwing a premature 4.5 and calling it a day
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