Does IDM Music sound better in WAV/FLAC quality?

  On 1/5/2020 at 7:48 PM, rhmilo said:

Or you could look at the algorithm, verify that is indeed lossless and get on with your day.

It’s just math, after all. And just as 1 + 1 = 2 even after you’ve tried it a billion times, so too the FLAC algorithm is lossless very single time you run it.

perhaps so, as all evidence i've seen supports this. i don't understand the software/math involved enough to say for sure...but i can't help but wonder....

  On 1/5/2020 at 9:01 PM, oscillik said:

it depends on what font size you use though

Exactly.

And that is all FLAC is, really. You surround your audio data with a <font size=“8px”> tag. This makes the file smaller. Remove the font tag and you have your original audio back.

Do I need my coffee with whiskey in the goddam morning?

As you were. 

yes flac is better but you need to make sure you use the right cables so the extra electrons in the flac file are transferred properly

https://shunyata.com/products/digital-cables/usb-digital-cables/alpha-usb/

Don’t forget to dampen etc and address room nulls or flac immediately downconverts to 128kbs

Its really who did the ripping. Pirate MFSL or find someone who  is known for great rips from vinyl. Or you could go crazy and buy the wav. If you have a great system you'll feel the difference, but who the fuck am I

"hi-fi is only as good as yr weakest link" - traditional saying

  On 1/5/2020 at 6:08 PM, aencre said:

This thread made me put on Alvin Lucier's I am sitting in a room.

Which, funnily, I only have a lossy rip of.

Once did that with a friend and used the resonant frequency as tonic for a track. No idea what happened to that recording though.

This thread is a bit like those zombie films where a baby is born a zombie. 

Virgin zombie birth vibes

The less bitrate u use, the more it is IDM.

0 Bits/second is the absolute crown of all IDMs. It's called the magic window.

Bad music sounds bad in most bitrates, might sound better if you absolutely crush it. Good music tends to be good regardless.

I guess there's some microhouse and minimal glitch stuff with reaaally high frequency beeps and glops that would indeed sound better in wav/flac. Wait, thats not IDM. Shame on me.

Yes but purchasing your FLACs makes them sound a little "heavier" than pirated FLACs.

I guess what i mean is they FEEL a little heavier.

Feeling the weight of the music on your wallet AND in lossless quality simultaneously makes the tunes SOUND better.

I guess the short answer is: It's a feeling.

This is true, it's all about the feeling. I'm always on edge, unable to really listen unless I've paid for the highest possible quality, out of fear of missing out on some hiss or high fidelity whine that I would've been able to hear a decade ago.

I've noticed that bass tends to alias with lossy compression, sounds like it's being run through a bit crusher plugin (which basically it kinda is.) Lossless formats do not have the same issue for me.

  On 1/16/2020 at 4:01 PM, Wurstwasser said:

The less bitrate u use, the more it is IDM.

0 Bits/second is the absolute crown of all IDMs. It's called the caustic window.

Storing IDM music in FLAC codec on your PC computer most IDM 2020

IDM's going to sound like shit regardless of the encoding. I recommend trying a different genre.