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Audiophiles Can't Differentiate Audio Signals Sent Through Copper, Banana, and Mud in Blind Test
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That's my coworkers face when I said I find mp3 rips sound muddy to me, so I have been using flac and wav.
I had to prove it to him with two back to back rips.
But for many people, like my darling wife, she can't discern the difference and a clippy phone speaker is the same for her as my DAC on a 5.1 system