Maybe in the 90's they were an abomination, but with the improvements in LAME I would be willing to bet most people couldn't tell the difference in a blindfold test.
Bingo. I've used the double-blind testing mode in Foobar on my PC to compare FLAC and high quality MP3 (LAME V0) and I can't tell the difference - that's using HD595 headphones from a Total Bithead DAC/Amp. Having said that, disc space is cheap so when I'm in front of the PC I listen to lossless format, but for anywhere else in the house or elsewhere the iPod carries MP3 files.
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What format do you usually use?
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Bingo. I've used the double-blind testing mode in Foobar on my PC to compare FLAC and high quality MP3 (LAME V0) and I can't tell the difference - that's using HD595 headphones from a Total Bithead DAC/Amp. Having said that, disc space is cheap so when I'm in front of the PC I listen to lossless format, but for anywhere else in the house or elsewhere the iPod carries MP3 files.