Smoothbass12
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I recently imported my CD of John Mayer's Born and Raised album, and decided I would do a little experiment on myself. I uploaded the song "Speak for Me" (as well as a few others) to three different bit rates (128kbps, 256 kbps, and Apple Lossless) and compared the qualities with my rig (MacBook Pro to Fiio e17 DAC/amp to Beyerdynamic dt770). I heard absolutely NO difference (major let down:/). I was pretty surprised honestly, I do well picking out nuances most of the time. Would there be any reasons I don't hear a difference or are my ears just 'not good enough?' haha. I checked the info on the songs (and saw the dramatic file size difference) and noticed there was a common sample rate of 41K and common sample size of 16bit between the songs. I know that these are not as high as would be considered 'audiophile quality', but I have no idea how to correct that. I had the same info displayed on the fiio e17. How could I correct this? Would it relate to the fact that all were from the CD and that there would be a noticeable difference if downloaded from the iTunes store? And say I did correct it, would the difference even be worth it? (Yes, I just opened that can of worms.
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