does anyone notice a quality difference between Mp3 and regular wav formats? I think its in my head but when I listen 2 Mp3 disks I feel like it has less sound in it.
" does anyone notice a quality difference between Mp3 and regular wav formats? "
Yes. WAV is uncompressed CD quality audio, the best quality digital format. MP3 is compressed audio. If the file is a low bitrate, you can hear the distortion from compression.
" I think its in my head but when I listen 2 Mp3 disks I feel like it has less sound in it. "
Nope, it's not in your head . Even if an mp3 file is a high bitrate, it still lacks the dynamic range of an uncompressed WAV file (that's what was cut out to reduce file size).
i can tell the difference between 192 and 128 i dont really get WAV cause they always seem to be protected on Linewire Also VBR is prolly the worst most mixtapes are VBR
"...Even if an mp3 file is a high bitrate, it still lacks the dynamic range of an uncompressed WAV file (that's what was cut out to reduce file size)."
That is absolutely false. Without peeling off a novel here... Dynamic Range Compression (DRC), and "compression" describing file size reduction via MP3, are two totally different things. The theoretical dynamic range ceiling, or peak amplitude, of a 16-bit mp3 encoding is 96.1 dB. MP3 uses what is called "perceptual coding", which is based on the measured physical limitations of our ears and what they can and cannot perceive. In other words MP3 encoding removes only the data that it deems will not be audibly recognized by the human ear. This trimming of the least important data, basically "details", generally results in what most people would hear as grainy and/or strident at some frequencies and on certain instruments, but does not limit the effective dynamic range of the original cd.
Now of course if you are encoding the very rare wide-dynamic-range live classical recording with dynamic range of greater than 96dB, then yes there will be a slight reduction in dynamic range. But even then the dynamic range will be affected in the "bottom range" and not the top, meaning that only the noise floor would be affected. The average music cd has a dynamic range of around 90dB, lower than the theoretical capability of an MP3.
Mp3 and WAV quality arent different IMO its just a different way of compressing the data and uses different bit rates. As long as you rip it right you can make them sound exactly alike.
. Even if an mp3 file is a high bitrate, it still lacks the dynamic range of an uncompressed WAV file (that's what was cut out to reduce file size).