[zanny]

Listening through all of them, 32 and 48 do have noticeable artifacting if you are using a good sound setup. On my phone though, even 48 was "as good as it gets" for its speaker.

It is still pretty crazy that I find a sub 100 kbps sound sample to be indistinguishable from lossless. Definitely considering transcoding my flac library to 96 vbr opus for backup purposes.

[theandrewbailey]

"Definitely considering transcoding my flac library to 96 vbr opus for backup purposes."

I'm not sure what you mean. FLAC should be the backup.

[zanny]

I have a local backup of native files, but I also have some external 1TB drives I usually get access to once a year and store at relatives places in case my house burns down. They aren't big enough to store my entire media library so I usually end up downsampling to "good enough" copies in case of a disaster.