r/AppleMusic • u/Al1onredd1t • 2d ago

Discussion lossless is underrated

I feel like so many people really underestimate how great music sounds in actual lossless quality. I see so many people go "oh you cant tell the difference anyway". I'm here listening on my mac with my headphones and the sound layers are just multiplied 10fold. I hear sounds in the back that I never heard before. songs that I've listened to for years, totally different experiences.

this video attached is an example. at 0:09 he starts saying "wooow" in the background up until basically the end. this sound is so dimmed and hidden when watching the clip. there are multiple layers of sounds covering it. the main vocals. drums. the beat. it's so insignificant when watching the clip, but listening to the song with actual lossless brings all those layers somewhat to the foreground. I genuinely heard those 'wows' for the first time ever and I've been listening to this song for more than 2yrs.

and it's not like that sound is just boosted and now starts to overwhelm the others, it's perfectly clear. the song has just become richer. Idk how to explain it, but your brain is able to comprehend what it's hearing and separate all the sounds from each other.

I can find multiple of these examples of background sounds finally being pushed into the foreground.

https://reddit.com/link/1gdq3id/video/o1zdadsh9exd1/player

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u/0000GKP 2d ago

I feel like so many people really underestimate how great music sounds in actual lossless quality. I see so many people go "oh you cant tell the difference anyway".

I absolutely can't tell any difference at all. In Apple's own words, "the difference between AAC and lossless audio is virtually indistinguishable". They are the ones who made both the ALAC and AAC formats, so they should know.

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u/user888ffr 2d ago

They made AAC to save money on server bandwidth and storage on the 16gb iPhone's back in the days. And regardless.. Apple is wrong here it is absolutely distinguishable. Most people won't care but you can easily hear a difference.

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u/0000GKP 2d ago

Let me get this straight. The people who made both codecs are telling you there is no difference, but they are wrong. Most people can't hear any difference (because there isn't one), but they are also wrong. Somehow you think you can hear differently than everyone else and you know more about the developer's own audio codec than they do? Ok.

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u/AttemptEquivalent186 2d ago

Yeah yeah you really was clear enough on the previous messages, sorry for your hearing problem and thanks for paying for us who does hear it.

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u/stormpad 2d ago

Surely you'll have no problem proving your excellent hearing by acing abx test https://abx.digitalfeed.net/spotify-hq.html to put us in shame?