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A test deciding if you can hear a terrible master regardless if its in a lossy or lossless form.

Avoid 20th Century Masters albums and other garbage compilations.įinally, the once-for-all audio test.

Rarely high-res albums will be mastered better (Ex: Green Days albums).

If your just into streaming, find the original album (at CD quality not Hi-res) not from a compilation album and/or a high-res album.

Rarely later CD releases feature better mastering.

If your bent on trying to get the best version of the album on CD, look for it when it first released on CD.

I can give some tips when searching for lossless replacements for lossy formats (Streaming and local). Rip CDs via overkill methods and create a rip log.

Goodbye Multi-gig 24-bit/192khz albums and hello 700MB FLAC max quality-mastered CDs. Good DSD album? Sounds great at converted CD quality but luckily WavPack DSD retains the original for future format converting. Realize, hey there is terrible hi-res files out there and a well mastered CD sounds better. At this phase, I was like how can a 24-bit/96khz master be awful, its hi-res and I can stream it! Get a good DAC, good speakers and good amp during this phase. I wanted everything in hi-res, including DSD and sadly MQA. Error Correction? Phh, Fastest rip speed possible! DAC Quality? Speaker Quality? Mastering quality? Who cares music is music! Have old CDs from the 90s? Rip in WMA.

I didn't care about sound quality and didn't care about bitrate, I just wanted the tunes. Going from MP3 to true quality FLACs is like a phase.