Is FLAC really "better" than high-bit rate MP3?

[tuque1]

Only on speakers and good headphones

[Godforsaken]

Easy answer to the dilemma! Depends on where do you here the songs from and if your storage is big!! If it's a big stereo and your hdd counts lots of TBs then flac is made for you!! On the other hand if you use 2 little speakers and not a huge Hdd mp3 @ 320kbps seems ideal!!

[anon]

FLAC is very fantastic

It's FLACtastic!

[MoRbIdAnGeL]

Yeah, It's good when you have good speakers or headphones. And it slightly depends on type of the music you are listening.

[Godforsaken]

Yeah, It's good when you have good speakers or headphones. And it slightly depends on type of the music you are listening.

Yes of course!! You can enjoy Instrumental music or music including lots of instruments easier with the flac format!!

[Diggler]

FLAC with Foobar better than mp3, but I almost find everything in mp3.

[eindelijkraak]

I agree, i've ripped all my music into Flac.Play it in Foobar2k.
If you have a good soundsystem which is capable of portraying a nice "3D image", (with two speakers by the way) you can best use a lossless format like flac.
it's bit by bit identical to the orriginal.
On good recordings you can really hear the room-information thats in the music.I like not to loose anything when i rip my music.

[ELJOKER]

well the two of them are the same to me

[killuminati96]

Flac is like getting the CD from the store for free only reduced in size, but not quality. This thread is basically asking if a CD is better than an mp3. What do you think the answer is?

[DeadPoet]

Offcourse it's better but the main question is - whether it's worth the space...