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Originally Posted by f3lix
It's a trained ear first, followed by experiencing great sounding speakers/headphones. DJFC, are you just listening to MP3s?
The reason I ask this, is because I've gone back to listening to CDs because of sound quality. MP3s don't get the job done for me anymore, as they are not a good enough quality for the headphones I own. The compressed MP3 files aren't as good.
In the same light, I used to loooove Bose products, but after being exposed to other products and brands, I've found that Bose is just a name that sells itself on reputation and doesn't have the product to back up that reputation.
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MP3s have different bitrates. The old website I used to pirate music from had a strict minimum of 192 kb/sec at a time when 128 kb/sec was common. Once you get to 224 kb/sec and above I think it gets very hard to tell the difference. Basically don't write off all MP3s, just look into the quality of MP3s that you have. The music I listen to is 320 kb/sec proprietary file format (Spotify).
There are also lossless audio files which have no compression and therefore lose no quality from their CD counterparts.
And you're wrong about the trained ear. Ask anybody to take off their iphone earbuds and put on my beats by dre and they'll instantly appreciate the sound quality. The problem is people haven't sampled better so they don't realize what they're missing.