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How to enjoy audiophile music and audiophile sound?

2022

How to enjoy audiophile music and audiophile sound?

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In the field of audio compression, there are two compression methods, lossy compression and lossless compression. We commonly see MP3, WMA, OGG is called lossy compression, lossy compression as the name suggests is to reduce the audio sampling frequency and bit rate, the output audio file will be smaller than the original file.

Another type of audio compression is called lossless compression. Lossless compression can compress the volume of the audio file smaller under the premise of saving 100% of all the data of the original file, and after restoring the compressed audio file, it can achieve the same size and the same bit rate as the original file. At present, lossless compression formats are common such as APE, FLAC, WAV. Here's a comparison of these two lossless compression formats:

FLAC is short for Free Lossless Audio Codec, which is a very mature lossless compression format that is not famous under APE! The source code of the format is completely open and compatible with almost all operating system platforms. Its encoding algorithm is quite mature, has passed rigorous testing, and can still play well when the encoding is corrupted. In addition, the format is the first lossless format to be widely supported by hardware, and world-renowned digital products such as Rio's hard drive Walkman Karma, Kenwood's car audio MusicKeg and PhatBox's digital player can support the FLAC format.

APE is Monkey's Audio This program compresses WAV audio produced format, the compressed APE file, the size is about half smaller than the original WAV, but this method is not destructive compression, if this APE file is decompressed and restored, the resulting WAV file is exactly the same size as the original WAV file, so APE is also called lossless audio compression format.

WAV format is a sound file format developed by Microsoft, also known as waveform sound file, is the earliest digital audio format, widely supported by the Windows platform and its applications. WAV format supports many compression algorithms, supports a variety of audio bits, sampling frequencies and channels, adopts a sampling frequency of 44.1kHz, 16 digits of quantization, so the sound quality of WAV is almost the same as that of CD, but the WAV format requires too much storage space to facilitate communication and transmission.