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by fotta 1941 days ago
Pardon my ignorance, if I'm using using AirPods which use 256kbps AAC, will I even notice a difference here? My guess is no but I'm not super codec savvy.
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There's a large placebo component in hifi for many people so you might well (but reading this comment may lessen your experience).
My guess would be that compressing lossless audio will sound better than compressing already-compressed audio.