Hi All, I recently got myself some proper headphones and DAC but now I realise I don’t have much high quality music , my collection is mostly flac but only very few higher than 48k. So where do you get your music? does it even matter beyond that?
It shouldn’t matter. If the FLAC is at 48k it means it will be able to reproduce sounds up to 24kHz, which is beyond human hearing.
My understanding is that higher rates (like 96k) are only useful during music production, in order to prevent aliasing. But for listening 48k is all you need.
Oh I gotchu fam
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7digital - https://us.7digital.com - It’s fine, UI is a bit wonky, selection is meh, customer support has always been great - Quality wavers between mp3 and flac, 24 is available in most places
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HDTracks - https://www.hdtracks.com/ - Much better selection and UI, downloading is a bit weird. Nice middle mix - Most is 24 bit flac but some drops off
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ProStudioMasters - https://www.prostudiomasters.com - Great Selection, requires their download manager but otherwise it’s fine. Very pricey though, but probably best quality you’ll find. Most is 24bit flac.
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The Nyquist theorem states that the highest frequency that can be replicated in a digital signal is half the signal’s sample rate.
Now if you have a 48kHz the highest frequency that can be replicated is 24kHz. Human hearing is known to go up to around 20kHz sometimes a little more, but over your lifetime the top end gets worse. So unless you’re trying to play music higher fidelity music for your pet (cat, dog, rodent, or horse) you don’t need higher sample rate music.
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I’ve served over 10k files, 200 gigs, love Soulseek
@leds From Bandcamp, mostly (if I find it there)
You don’t really need more than CD quality 44.1kHz/ 16 bit uncompressed audio. At that point the mix is more important. I try to go for early pressing of CDs and vinyl because I find most remasters are overly compressed and de noised, which sucks the life out the music.
But for new albums, I been liking SDEs reissue series on Blu Ray Audio, almost all of them have the best new stereo mixes I’ve heard of the albums they released and have Atmos mixes, if your interested in spacial audio. Apple Music has many of those albums, but they are compressed, even the Atmos versions.
Invidious servers which permit downloading tend to have ~130k audio only mp4’s files available
Thanks for the good comments and suggestions everyone, i mostly use bandcamp but had forgotten 7digital existed
well i tried… seems that 7digital will not let you buy from them anymore if they don’t have a shop for your country “If you are currently located in a country that doesn’t have a local store you will unfortunately be unable to purchases from 7digital.” why does this have to be so hard…
Most of my collection is CDs ripped to FLAC. It can be slow going, but I enjoy hunting around charity shops/thrift stores for new albums. You can also check out the Discogs marketplace. I’ve bought some things digitally from active bands on Bandcamp, and some I knew I’d never find from sites like 7digital and HDTracks.
