The fact that you can't hear the difference on an MP3 player with nasty earbuds or a tabletop DAB radio doesn't mean they won't be audible through a decent hi-fi with studio monitors. (You can learn to hear differences, but why would you want to?) However, this depends on the quality of the reproduction. Whether the difference is audible is another matter.īriefly, very few untutored people can hear the difference between a 256kbps LAME-encoded MP3 file and a WAV file. This produces very small files, but there is inevitably some loss of quality. However, most people convert to a "lossy" format such as MP3, AAC or WMA.
Their size can be reduced by using a lossless compression system such as FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec). WAV files are easy to edit but very large, as shown by the number of tracks on an audio CD. Audio CDs also use LPCM encoding, so a WAV file can provide the same sound quality as the CD. WAV, the waveform audio format, is a Microsoft file format that usually contains uncompressed audio using linear pulse code modulation or LPCM.
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