A skeptical, evidence-driven tour of the audio codecs that actually matter: MP3, AAC, and Opus on the lossy side; FLAC and ALAC on the lossless side; the MQA fiasco; and the psychoacoustics that make any of it work. We take ABX blind testing seriously, name real transparency thresholds, and debunk the audiophile myths that fail under controlled listening — while being fair about where the differences are real.
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Audio Codecs Compared