>Anime torrent has FLAC audio >Extra GB for no difference at all

>>133706137
Hearing the difference now isn't the reason to encode to FLAC. FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is 'lossy'. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA - it's about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don't want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.

I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrange…well don’t get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they weren’t stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, you’ll be glad you did.

>>133706137
FLAC is only important if you have a good setup.
>>133706270
fuck off with this /mu/ meme

There is a significant difference between FLAC and MP3 but its only noticeable with high quality phones and amp/dacs.

Get some good cans you fucking retards

Get a better setup. Some good IEMs or good cans go a long way.

Isn't FLAC the stuff that gets in your teeth? I don't have internet, so I can't look this up.

>>133706137
rotational velocidencity

If you're archiving it and want to transcode it one day, you would be fucking the audio up unless it was lossless. Those releases are for archiving.

>>133706354

The difference between 320 mp3 and flac is negligible even with good headphones and an amp. External dacs are just about worthless unless you somehow have a trash soundcard or just really want to believe.

File: 1409272201686.jpg (24KB, 256x256px) Image search: [Google]

24KB, 256x256px

>>133706915
>i don't have internet

File: 1442899449221.jpg (11KB, 210x135px) Image search: [Google]

11KB, 210x135px

>>133706137

File: 1425358580130.jpg (328KB, 2048x1360px) Image search: [Google]

328KB, 2048x1360px

>>133706137
Get a better setup.

File: 1400595078292.jpg (55KB, 515x515px) Image search: [Google]

55KB, 515x515px

>>133706270
So does that mean all the work I did archiving 8tb of chinese cartoons will be wasted in a few years because only some of them FLAC audio included?

>>133707189
Yep. I bet you grabbed the .mkv instead of .avi as well. You still have a few months before the TPP takes effect, so stock up now.

>>133707370
What is wrong with the .mkv?

>>133706270
What if I put it on an external harddrive after downloading it, and keep the harddrive stored correctly? Will that copy of my anime lose sound quality even if the harddrive is only used once every 3 months to backup new stuff?

>>133707370
Well that's upsetting. Why AVI over MKV? I thought MKV was just a container.

Also, what would you recommend to do for older series or less popular ones which have no FLAC release? Some I can get the raws and mux myself, but some just aren't available.

>>133706968
>External dacs are just about worthless unless you somehow have a trash soundcard
If you knew about EE at all you'd know about the hell all the currents and eddies flying around inside a box play on internal soundcards, to the point that they're pretty dumb to use at all.

>>133706137
get a halfway decent pair of headphones/speakers if you can't tell

>>133707189
>>133707462
>>133707533
>>133707568
ROTATIONAL
VELOCIDENSITY

>>133706270
This applies to anime? I've had the same copy of several shows for well over a decade, and I still rewatch them without noticing a massive problem with the sound. Yeah, it sounds worse than current stuff, but that's because the equipment/actors weren't as good back then, right?

Like, I have torrented shows I downloaded well over a decade ago, and they still sound fine to me. My headphones aren't studio quality, is this the kind of quality difference that only matters to audiophiles?

>>133707754
I don't understand how you can look at that post and think that at any point, any part of it is serious.

>>133706270
Nice Copypasta.

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/RotationalVelocidensity

The exact same shit was posted here, and doesn't apply to video files like Anime nearly as much as it does to plain MP3 files.

>>133707855
>doesn't apply to video files like Anime nearly as much as it does to plain MP3 files.
none of it applies to anything
because it's a fucking joke

For those of you who have anime with lossy audio, just buy a bunch of SSDs for archiving. Rotational velocidensity doesn't apply to SSD because there's no disk.

>>133707829
I don't know shit about computers. Will my chinese cartoons sound the same in 20 years? That's all I give a shit about.

>>133707954
You're a retard.

>>133707954

It's a meme you dip

Also you're a fucking moron

>>133707903
>>133707936
Yes, but bit rot is serious. SSDs are more prone to bit rot than traditional HDDs.
>>133707954
Nope. That's why FLAC was invented.

File: 1429684288061.jpg (10KB, 235x284px) Image search: [Google]

10KB, 235x284px

>>133706270

Are /a/utists really this gullible? Or is this some next level post irony?

File: meme girl.jpg (46KB, 456x488px) Image search: [Google]

46KB, 456x488px

>>133706270

>>133707614

They've been comparable to any of the dacs I've owned. Granted, I've never been able to drop much money into them. But I've never been displeased with internal soundcards. Does any of that interference actually become audible?

>>133707855
LEAVE NOW.

>>133707995
There is no widely approved theory on bit rot in the CS community at the moment. Although I have heard rumors that MKV has a higher probability of encountering bit rot, I would stick to the AVI format for archiving. Better yet, transcode the MP3 audio in the file to FLAC, that will protect you against both rotational velocidensity and bit rot.

>>133707965
>>133707992

>I don't spend 12 hours a day studying the differences between audio file types
>This makes me retarded

It's like I'm really at /g/.

>>133706137
BD audio, PCM, DTS, TruHD, are lossless. Encoding to a AAC/MP3 would be throwing away information. If you want an encode as close to the rips it has to be FLAC which has the best compression.

But if you're satisfied with listening to inferior approximations, knock yourself out.

File: 1438735815985.jpg (468KB, 950x720px) Image search: [Google]

468KB, 950x720px

>>133706270
Oh man I haven't seen this pasta in a while.

>few replies actually believed this
So this is what it has come to.

File: 0c3fb65d_rotational_velocidensity.png (72KB, 1254x297px) Image search: [Google]

72KB, 1254x297px

>>133707736

>>133708144
I've read something similar to the pasta but it was some argument between some gullible faggots and trolls.

>>133708140
Psychoacoustics is an interesting field of study.

>>133708108
NO. this is not
>spend 12 hours a day studying the difference between audio file types
this is
>know how to copy-paste without right clicking
This board is for those ages 18 and up ONLY.

>>133707855
Is this your first week here?

>>133706270
>2027 - 12
>Not redownloading the same mp3 file every time you want to listen to it in flawless 320kbps

ishygddttbhfam

>>133707936
>buy a bunch of SSDs for archiving
>SSDs
>archiving
Let's buy a more expensive placebo that is 3 orders of magnitude more prone to bit rot for long term storage than a cheaper ,higher density storage medium. Next you'll be telling people to use .mkv over .avi.

>>133708108
You don't even have to know about filetypes to know that what the post says is total fucking bullshit unless you're a drooling fucking retard, you fucking drooling retard.

File: 1307905183470.png (340KB, 1400x1050px) Image search: [Google]

340KB, 1400x1050px

>not having a $10000 amp and 7.1 speaker setup so that you can fully exploit the power of FLAC to preserve, with flawless integrity, the sound of your waifu's seiyuu's spittle landing on the mic cover as she screeches passionate tsundere cliches during the recording of Chinese Cartoon Harem #411028
It's like you haven't even heard that it's 2015.

Why are lossy soundtracks always released in 320kbps CBR? Doesn't it kind of defies the whole purpose of lossy?

>>133708303
Sound mixing in anime these days is absolute total balls.

>>133708310
Ask the the guys pirating.

File: 1442016233139.png (131KB, 666x672px) Image search: [Google]

131KB, 666x672px

>>133708108
you could've googled "lossless vs lossy" or something to that effect for a <5 minute explanation

>>133708280
>Not using .wmv and .flv for your anime

>>133708128
>It's like I'm really at /g/.
>no mention of how to keep all those child pornography under encryption

>>133708088
Velociodensity degradation in hard disks is the symptom of the core problem of magnetic platters. This is fundamentally caused by the High-Q runout error from vibration of the platter, magnetic dislocations, and bit errors in the magnetic material from the superparamagnetic effect. Superparamagnetic effect is dominated by quantum instability which causes increased random magnetic fluctuations as smaller density platters are used. The effect is not deletion, but bit flips that occur near the read head activity from the realignment of the nearby magnetic alignments, which become more likely as smaller nanoparticles are used to store data. Using the hard drive kills data over time, so rewriting your files with robust ECC will ensure maximum bit perfection for as long as possible.
One might be inclined to believe that simply stocking up on older hard disc platters further from superparamagnetic instability would solve the problem. Unfortunately, older drives tend to use a different motor type with greater alignment errors which result in more data write errors. The effect is not unlike the broken record skipping over itself, although given the higher data rate involved, this does not result in a loop. What will happen is that the data will look over itself, resulting in a digital smearing effect, a sort of ghostly echo.

>>133706137
FLAC is useless for storing movie/TV show/anime audio, but not for the reason /a/ seems to think.

FLAC is lossless, yes, but when it's transcoded from a lossy source, you're frankly better off just muxing the release with the regular audio track.

AC3, AAC, and DTS are pretty universally supported on most devices, and even if not,m the conversion and remux process is easy enough to be done by anyone who wants to

>>133706270
To this day, I still have no idea if some of those terms are real or if the entire thing is as fake as lossy compression.

>>133708326
>absolute total balls
Complete absolute total balls. Can't count the number of times I've heard a hiss announcing that a new line will be spoken.

File: 1424240255862.gif (1MB, 480x270px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 480x270px

>>133708429

Velocidensity is absolutely real.

I'm posting a cute foxgirl so you know you can trust me.

>>133708492
>.gif
>trust
I don't think so

>>133708465
It's like listening to shitty 90's dubs

>>133708413
Nobody here cares about that since its "3DPD" and they'll make some bullshit excuses about lolis while keeping their collections encrypted.

>>133708509
Webms are only 160kbps.

>>133708429
lossy compression isn't fake you fucking dip

So, I know that the Copypasta is bullshit, but it DOES raise an interesting question. If the internet dies after a worldwide nuclear holocaust, and I survive in my no-contact bunker, will my HHD's anime maintain it's quality throughout my lifetime, or will I be able to notice a dip in quality over the decades?

>>133708517
Budgets are about the same, so...

File: 1374295409798.jpg (12KB, 128x117px) Image search: [Google]

12KB, 128x117px

>>133708416
Is this actually generally the case, where the FLAC release is sourced from lossy audio?

>>133708537
I don't even know if you're telling the truth. Fuck, I'm so bad with computers I'd probably be falling for the pasta at age twenty-three if this weren't the four hundredth time I'd seen it.

>>133708509

>implying that webms aren't lossy

>>133708535
>webm
>not posting a link to an auction listing for the animation cels

>>133708537
>he actually believes this

>>133708416
>AC3, AAC, and DTS are pretty universally supported on most devices, and even if not,m the conversion and remux process is easy enough to be done by anyone who wants to
That's only true if you use ZFS otherwise the cumulative errors will compound the rate of bit rot in a logarithmic exospiral.

>>133708407

True anime connoisseurs use .rm

File: 1443811907368.png (31KB, 213x214px) Image search: [Google]

31KB, 213x214px

>>133708603

>>133708664
Oh man I remember using this.

>>133708580
I can't prove it unless I have a genuine Japanese Blu-Ray of an anime on my hands but assume that it's the case most of the time.

as a neet is hard to get good fucking headphones

>>133708310
Why is mp3 even used anymore? There's several alternatives that don't cut off high frequencies.

>>133708664
.rm is what made me really appreciate those hideous yellow subs.

>>133708407
>>133708664
>not .mov or .qt
Plebs.

>>133708727
Because not everyone is an autistic shit like you.

>>133708310
>Why are lossy soundtracks always released in 320kbps CBR?
Because that is the highest form of mp3 file you can get from a audio CD. I'm not a /g/ expert at audio stuff. Just load this Spek software with the piggy icon to see if the audio goes above 20kHz. I can only hear up to 17kHz. Most poorly created mp3's are below 15kHz which means I can't listen to it because I want to have the full kHz I can audibly hear. Lower mp3 file size means you'd get low kHz. 320kbps is the best encode you can get that is indistinguishable from .flac, .flac is for archiving. I'm just parroting, again I'm not an expert at /g/ audio topics.

>>133708727
MP3 came about just before digital music hit mainstream.

>>133708771
You're doing fine. A /g/ expert doesn't exist. /g/ is filled with some of the least tech-educated people on the internet.

>>133708771
I'll also post this link. http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/hearingloss.html

If you can't hear above 20kHz. That mean mp3 files are good enough. Just make sure you download the Spek piggy icon freeware to check if you downloaded the right anime album.

>>133708835
That's what happens when you kick /a/ out and let /v/ and reddit take over. Techloli/g/y is dead.

File: 1208939073624.jpg (10KB, 151x190px) Image search: [Google]

10KB, 151x190px

>>133706270
>this old copypasta


>people are replying seriously to it

>>133708771
Some of that is true. The frequency shit however is based on encoding schemes of the codec you're using and what you set the frequency of the music to. If it's anything below 44.1 kHz, it's trash. If you encode anything below 64 kbps in some codecs like Vorbis, that's when the frequency starts to get cut off.

>>133708841
Had fun with shit like that backthen.

>>133708727

>high frequencies.
But everyone in da club rollin' with $300 Apple® Beats™ *smacks lips* BassFucker™ hol up headphones now, anon.

>>133708835
Those guys told me to delete my System32 folder. Fuck them.

>>133708771
That's why Opus exists.

>>133708841
I can't hear any of the low frequencies and I can't hear above 1300. I'm not that old!

1tb of hdd costs like 30euro so who cares about file sizes.

File: implying this shit is worth five hundred dollars.jpg (64KB, 1024x768px) Image search: [Google]

64KB, 1024x768px

>>133708712

These are what I want to be honest

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/review-master-dynamic-mw60-wireless-headphones/

>>133708890
If there are any sound mixers that use these headphones in their work, they have no dignity. I bet there are some who work in the anime industry that wear them.

>>133708580

Dolby Digital is lossy, unless it's Dolby TrueHD. DTS is probably lossy, unless it's DTS-HD Master Audio, but it's complicated. The point is more devices can play DD or DTS than can play FLAC, so there's no reason to transcode at all. Just mux the original unmodified audio stream into your files if you're going for max quality.

>>133708933
1tb can't hold even 1/10th of my files, and I don't even use FLAC.

>>133708902
What you hear is determined by your ears second and your sound hardware first. Shitty hardware can fail to reproduce sound above and below certain frequencies.

>>133708799
Mainstream digital music is pretty much AAC and it also caught on with anime encoders. I just wonder why nobody uses it to fileshare music.

>>133708771
>Because that is the highest form of mp3 file you can get from a audio CD.
V0 is better than CBR though you moron

>>133708975
how?

>>133708974
DTS is lossy. DTS-HD Master Audio is lossless.

>>133708974
Are there devices that can play 10 bit MKV but not FLAC? I assumed FLAC was slightly better at compression.

>>133708954
Ew.

Try these:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00001WRSJ

>>133708835
Oh thanks. I lurk in /g/'s headphone general in /hpg/ most or some of the times but I stopped posting frequently because of the bullies you encounter over there.

>>133708870
/g/ is dead, thanks to overly overreacting brand rivalry shills.

>>133708902
I can only hear up until a bit past 17kHz and I'm nearly 25 years old.

>>133709037
I already know that. It's the best one to encode to so that you can put it into your phone or digital audio player.

>>133709060
No.

>>133708841
Does the 16Khz+ frecuencies sound as loud as the 8-16 Khz ones?
The 14 Khz seems to dissappear after ten seconds and the 15khz is barely audible for me

>>133709001
Unfortunately my computer is producing those sounds as evidenced by younger peoples

>>133708140
You can't fucking hear the difference you dumb turd and you'll probably inspire a whole generation of retards to transcode lossy into lossless.

https://www.whatinterviewprep.com/

>Transparency is a term used to describe the audible quality of a lossy music file. A lossy file is considered transparent if the average human cannot tell the difference between the lossy file and a lossless file of the same song by just listening to both without knowing which file is which.

>For most people, MP3 192kbps (CBR) is considered transparent.
If you think you aren't 'most people' run an ABX test and find that you're a fucking normie.

I feel like I become more and more retarded every time I read people talk about this topic.

>>133709005
AAC popularity happened because of the second wave of digital music that Apple and the iPod led.

>>133709076
>/g/ is dead, thanks to overly overreacting brand rivalry shills.
That's just a symptom.

>>133709071
Try the CD900ST. I have one. But HD600 sounds better. My ER-4P is also like a portable CD900ST. SRS-2170 has the sweetest forward vocals ever but it's fiddly to marathon with.

Everybody should at least start with Tascam TH-02's IMO.

File: 1444349358380.png (112KB, 359x393px) Image search: [Google]

112KB, 359x393px

>>133706270
>tfw I fell for it

>>133709071

No, you don't understand. I don't need studio quality.

I'm just done with fucking wires on my headphones.

I feel like posting my /g/ headphone waifu chart here, but I know I'm going to get bullied so I refuse to do that.

>>133708712
What headphones do you use right now?

>>133709222
10 dollars ones, sony

>>133706270
I almost believed this, until i took a second closer look. Nice try

File: Untitled.png (21KB, 650x489px) Image search: [Google]

21KB, 650x489px

Do you senpais take advantage of this option? Am I doing it right?

>>133709106
So why aren't the BDs using MP3? The pros think encoding lossless audio is worth it. I'm not going to argue with them.

>>133709250
My post right here >>133709119 contains a bunch of headphones I would personally recommend for forward female vocals. That you can feel attached to the characters that talk. Not the Tascam TH-02, it has very terrible comfort. I mentioned the TH-02 because it was $15 before. I can't recommend it at $30 because it costs less before..

>>133709119
>CD900ST
Specs are basically identical to the V6 from what I'm seeing, barring a slight reduction in wattage. What makes them better than the V6?

>TH-02
Remembering these. Impedance is weak, and I can't speak for the construction, but it's damn good for ~$30.

>>133709158
Ah. So why get a $500 wireless pair with studio quality when there are $75-125 wireless pairs?

>>133709060

I would rather have DD or DTS audio because I can bitstream it to my receiver rather than decoding audio on the computer and sending a bunch of PCM channels.

Not for fidelity reasons, but because my receiver will only apply Pro Logic to stereo audio, so I want Windows to send stereo over the HDMI connection 99% of the time, and don't want to manually switch it to multi-channel in the rare case that I watch a video with a surround mix.

If windows would change the output format dynamically it wouldn't be an issue, but that would be too sensible or something.

>>133709301
MP3 doesn't support more than two channels of surround sound audio, which DTS and Dolby Digital/AC-3 do.

>>133709076
>It's the best one to encode to so that you can put it into your phone or digital audio player.
Are you implying you can't play v0 on your toaster?

>>133709378
I have not tried the V6 or 7506 before. They don't have any of them where I live. I blindly impulse purchased the CD900ST and I'm happy it has forward vocals in it.

>>133709378

Because the $75-$125 ones are shit. I still want a good pair of headphones.

Not that it matters either way, as I'm not about to buy new hardware.

>>133706137
flac, in the case of anime, doesn't serve so much of a listening purpose as it does a preservation purpose. flac torrents contain what is essentially identical audio to what was on the original BD/DVD.

by downloading a flac torrent you are enabling yourself to custom choose your preferred audio codec further down the line, even if it is a hassle to do so. if you wanted to trim down the size of any anime using flac audio, it would be as simple as mkvextracting the audio track out, converting it to aac/ac3/opus at your choice bitrate, and then mkvmerging it all back together.

>>133709418
What is your budget on new headphones? Do you want something for watching anime with?

>those headphone prices
Fucking audiophiles

>>133709431

0. I really don't have money to spend on headphones right now. My computer and phone are already both up for replacement, and I'm trying to save up for a fun or two besides. Thank you though.

>>133709431
not that guy but with 40 bucks, what good stuff can I get?

>>133709430

You can't get any closer to the original audio than copying the original DD or DTS audio stream untouched. FLAC will be a bit smaller than lossless versions of DD or DTS, but not by enough to care.

>>133706137
>dual audio

At least I'll actually use the FLAC

>>133708841
I'm 20 and i can barely hear 17kH

>>133709042
I have a fuckload of stuff. 4tb anime, 3tb other tv shows, 2tb videogames, and just under 2tb of "other" stuff, like music, webm, and manga.

>>133709548
A button-up shirt and some paper for resumes. Go get a job.

>>133709406
I put my v0's in my 512mb mp3 player from 2008, but on my computer I could encode it yet again but why should I even bother when I have to do that for every single thing I download? I encode it into my mp3 player because it still works and my pc has enough space at the moment (I still have unopened three boxes of wd 3tb external drives, they were cheap)

>>133709548
I don't recommend my PortaPro. It sounds too boomy and harsh. The Tascam TH-02 with HM5 pads would be great. Earphones are terrible, my ER-4PT sounds very compressed and headphones sound better.

File: nichijou book2.jpg (152KB, 600x500px) Image search: [Google]

152KB, 600x500px

>>133709569
>Dual audio
>English is default

kill me

>>133709548
See >>133709119 . TH-02 are okay, and cost around $30. Splurge a bit, and MDR-V6s are $100 and will last you a decade if you treat them nicely.

>>133709588

>paper
Grandpa pls.

>>133709616
Funny how we have 10-bit on one hand yet have to cater to 2008 mp3 players on the other hand.

>>133709625

>Dual audio
>Splitter is configured to prefer Japanese audio and English subs
>Streams are mislabeled

Go to hell, mux rapist.

>>133706270
>people replying seriously to this
sasuga, neo /a/

>>133709644
Backwards compatibility is a bitch. A bitch with millions of sales on the line.

>>133709644
Step up and get 48 kHz 24-bit audio files to go with those 10-bit video files.

File: [DESS]Nichijou_18_1080.BD.FLAC.Underwater-Commie_[ECCDC772].mkv_snapshot_11.23_[2015.11.18_22.34.19].jpg (191KB, 1280x720px) Image search: [Google]

191KB, 1280x720px

>>133709625
>Dual audio
>both in FLAC
>50+ episodes

>>133709682
I don't know shit about this audio stuff, but if you believed that shit, you may have brain problems
People is so stupid

>>133709713
What is Coalgirls.

File: hikage.jpg (90KB, 777x713px) Image search: [Google]

90KB, 777x713px

>>133709728
most likely just underage like >>133707855

>>133709625
Can't you change the preferred language like you can for subs in the settings in MPC HC?

>>133709951
I tried setting it to Japanese in VLC, but it would still play English by default for some reason.
Not to mention there were dual subs to go along with the dual audio, both also labeled "English"

Switched to mpv which is less of a hassle, but I haven't run into that type of thing since then anyway

Does anyone here own a HD800? Do you use it to watch anime with? Do you find that it makes whatever you watch on screen lags?

>>133709706
I use 16 bit and 44100 Hz.

>>133707116
this image can't be real

>>133708303
>7.1 speaker setup
you tried

>>133707116
After all these years, I still have no idea what's going on in that pic.

File: renge.png (408KB, 733x750px) Image search: [Google]

408KB, 733x750px

>>133710198
>$1300 headphone
Wew

>>133708870
I haven't visited /g/ for quite a while and decided to swing by a couple of weeks ago when I heard they now have a general for private trackers.

Holy shit, that the threads were terrible. very much like certain generals here on /a/, in fact.

>>133710101
Not much you can do about it if stuff isn't labelled properly. Nothing that's less hassle than just switching the language each time you play it at least.

>>133710301
It's even more expensive now that Sennheiser released the "S" version. This is why I made this vid, I got jealous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkZPj9F0y18

>inb4
>bought expensive headphones
>only listen to anime music

File: 1403980131176.jpg (87KB, 432x288px) Image search: [Google]

87KB, 432x288px

>>133710422
It's not like I'm any better.

>>133709625

for file in *.mkv; do mkvmerge -o "fixed_$file" -a !1 "$file";done

File: 1409098332984.png (67KB, 181x201px) Image search: [Google]

67KB, 181x201px

>Spending more than $200 MAXIMUM on placebophones

>>133710541
>spending money on headphones
I literally just steal all the leftovers from planes whenever I fly, and I usually fly again before I run out. Audio quality is the least important part of anime.

File: ath m50x blue edition RARE.jpg (282KB, 1000x1000px) Image search: [Google]

282KB, 1000x1000px

>>133710541
$200 max? PHWEW, guess my meme phones are okay then

>>133708580
I wouldn't know. Only Jap BDMV I have is EoE and the audio for that is PCM, so FLAC would make sense for archival storage (I did that for myself), but for distribution, pretty much anything would be better

>>133708651
nice meme :^)

>>133706137
Actually, you can tell the difference between good FLAC and MP3 recorded at 320.

>>133706270
>believing this meme/copypasta after
>>133706354
called it out LITERALLY the post after

sasuga neo /a/

>>133710631
Headphones are kinda worth getting into at least once just to try it. Try to audition and hear what headphones over $200 sounds like. $400 to $700 headphones are no-mans land and nothing in that price range is worth looking into.

>>133710647
Those are expensive.

>>133710686
No. It's impossible. This is coming from someone who owns a bunch of headphones just for anime. I'm not buying any more headphones. It's a stupid hobby and there's too many bullies in /g/'s headphone thread.

>>133708841
Holy fuck that shit is deafening

>>133710727
>This is coming from someone who owns a bunch of headphones just for anime
You must be an expert on audio quality then.

>>133710686
It's virtually impossible under normal circumstances.

>>133710785
It's a coin toss with modern poorly mastered music but I wonder if it might be possible with squealing Japanese girls. Nobody thought to ABX anime I'll wager.

File: athm50x.png (1MB, 863x639px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 863x639px

>>133710727
Heh, these LIMITED EDITION blue babies were practically a bargain at just under 190 big ones

>>133710858
It's also virtually impossible in those circumstances because Japanese anime music is about as badly mastered as regular mainstream pop music. And don't even think about anime itself, it's even worse.

File: 1390599335500.jpg (41KB, 493x575px) Image search: [Google]

41KB, 493x575px

>>133710727
>someone who owns a bunch of headphones just for anime

>>133710782
No. I'm not really an expert. Just a bargain hunter and affordables consumer. I purchased some headphones I liked and that's basically it. But I do know a few basic things that you should or shouldn't buy. http://pastebin.com/yYYYKCV6 you can search my trip on /g/'s archive. Yes, I talk like I'm an autist. Just ignore that because that's who I am. But I'm not going to reply if you upset me.

If people want to hate on me do whatever you want, I'm just here to express if I hate the stuff I own or not. If you wanna be a bully, up to you but I won't respond after that. That's basically it. You just made me upset and I'm not posting anymore today.

HD600 and ER-4PT are the most enjoyable and more laid back headphone or earphones I own for watching anime. I think my SRS-2170 still sounds the best with sweet vocals and it's the best end-game affordable. CD900ST is just a tool for vocals and my HD600 beats it but CD900ST's vocals sounds more forward than everything. But the ER-4PT must be used without the S adapter and must have the shirt clip with some slack in the cord. The S adapter is for music, it's bad for anime because it makes characters sound compressed and very thin sounding.

>>133711069
Please bully, I'm joking. Of course I don't want to be bullied. I recommend any of the headphones listed above. Do not purchase audiophile things such as tubes, cables or amps that cost more than a magni 2 or objective 2.

Jesus fuck, all this crap about headphones. Headphones are for kids living in mommy's basement. It's not just your ears involved when you are exposed to sound, it's your whole body. Your abdominal cavity responds to very low frequencies and your skull to some higher ones. Therefore no matter how much you pay for phones they are pretty useless for music, but totally useless for cinematic soundtracks with high LF content. And yes I did spend thousands of dollars on my audio setup. And the only people who can "tell the difference" between good MP3 and FLAC are the ones who pay $500 for an HDMI cable.

FLAC for archival

>>133706270
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kgr6DWZF1c

>>133710906
This anon is correct.
When done right 320 is a wide enough stream to fit in all the detail to mirror lossless audio.
If you really dont believe it, then look it up on gearslutz.


>>133710631
>airplane headphones
Ok, I know you're being frugal and it IS free headphones but... you can get a lot more for under $10 dollars and pull your ears out of the muddy shit.

>>133710869
>>133710541
>>133710422
>>133709409


You're all weebs right? That probably means you like the thought of supporting Japanese companies like JVC.

Well truth be told, JVC is responsible for one of the best budget earbuds ever made. I dare any of you audio fuckboys to get a pair of Riptidz and then honestly tell me that they cant go blow-for-blow with your audiophile crap.


After breaking my first pair in, I bought 4 more sets, so I would never be caught in the headphone selection process ever again.

try JVC Riptidz, anon

>>133707189
>>133707533
>>133707754
>>133709131
Feel bad.

>>133711124
This. I cover my entire body in headphones when listening to music.

>>133711124
This.

>>133711124
Joke's on you, I directly stimulate my abdominal cavity while watching low frequency anime.

>>133711267
In terms of budget earbuds my Sony MDR-EX58Vs have been amazing. Highs sound great. Just requires some burning but I ended up buying a couple pairs in case they ever break.

>>133711267
Riptidz is one of the worst product names I have ever heard, but they're only $6 so I guess I'll buy them and see how it works out

Earbuds definitely won't compare to a $200 pair of over-ear headphones, though.

>>133711499
My friends mother finds a reputable brand and sticks to it - forever. She only buys Toyotas, she only gets Dell computers, only buys logitech periphs, kellogs cereal... you get the idea. So when it comes to headphones and other little electronic tidbits, she only gets SONY's. So whenever he'd ask his mama to pick up a pair of buds for him, shed come back from the store with some sony buds. This gone on for some time now. Every time I'd go over to kick it in his room, I would always check up on his stuff, read bits of his manga collection, play a couple rounds on his rig, y'know, lazy day stuff - just this time theres 2 of us in the room, so no fapping. Anyways I would always test out the current pair of his sony buds - usually connected to his Ipod Touch, used to be a walkman - and be a little dissapointed in the sound quality. Not with these buds man.
>>133711540
Riptidz is a stupid name, and the fact that they use "sweatproof" as a selling point prods me in a weird spot.

>>133709665
>>133709625

>keybinded a to audio track switch and s to subtitle track switch
>mash a+s until it's okay

File: 1357777658235.png (473KB, 660x720px) Image search: [Google]

473KB, 660x720px

>>133709951
The biggest problem with dual audio and English being the default is that those idiots also include two different sub tracks, one that only translated written signs and stuff, the other that translates everything. The first one is the default since it's supposed to run alongside English audio, and both tracks are labeled as English subs so you can't make the other sub track the default one, you have to manually change it every episode.

>>133706137
>not caring about rotodencital velocity
back to the trash

>>133706270
I think I should be terrified that some people bought this even for a moment, but the fact that JPEGs actually degrade when rendered and recompressed makes it ever so slightly understandable. But then again, nothing really excuses the belief that the compression happens on disk simply from the passage of time.

>>133706354
>>133707652
>>133708140
Do you people actually believe that you can hear the difference between FLAC and higher bandwidth lossy compression? 320kbps Ogg or MP3, as well as VBR Ogg and MP3 carry 99.999% of the data the human ear can actually sense. Show me one blind study/challenge of someone differentiating high bandwidth compression schemes and lossless compression. I appreciate high quality audio equipment as much as the next guy, but don't be fucking tools. FLAC is for archival, not for distribution of anime where it's a huge waste of space.

P.S. The BD itself is the archival unit; there is no excuse for ever encoding anime audio into FLAC.