Originally Posted by Mike Halloran
Originally Posted by jpettit
Interesting that BIAB standard wma files (bit rate) are below where people listen these days, but the audiophile 16bit 44.1k is above where most people listen these days.
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The times they are a changing.

Trying to figure out how old that chart must be. It certainly is not accurate. Neither iTunes nor Amazon have distributed 256k in years.

I keep thinking that, at age 70, I shouldn't hear the difference between Audiophile and Ultra (which I can download at any time). Of course I can.
It was made this year.
The point of the chart was people on average are listening to a lower quality today than say 20 years ago and BIAB offers a slightly lower and higher quality than what the average user is listening to.

Amazon Prime Music streams at a bit rate of up to 256 kbps (lossy compression).
High Definition (HD): is 850 kbps. lossless compression.
CD = 1411kbs (no compression)
Ultra-High Definition (Ultra HD): This offers even higher quality, up to 24-bit/192 kHz, with an average bitrate of 3730 kbps. (lossless compression)

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