You'd need near lab conditions and equipment to do this properly. You can though take some guidance from the resulting bitrates of lossless files. Typically, a track ripped in lossless WMA has a bitrate of between 900 and 1,000 kbps. This is, of course, an average so parts of the music will peak much higher and there will be some lower points too.
What I'd suggest is play it back through some real hi-fi kit to compare the original CD against the lossless file. You'll need to play the CD through the computer to get as close as possible to an A/B test. Regards. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Toews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 8:43 PM Subject: Re: Lossless > Is there a way to prove that lossless file quality is truly lossless? > > Bruce > On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:37:37 +0100, "Kevin Lloyd" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> Hi. >> >> There's no 'best' in terms of sound quality for lossless formats as they >> all >> yield the same result; that is, a music file that is perfect in >> comparison >> to the original. However, you might want to consider what formats are >> supported by most software and hardware players and I think you'd find >> that >> lossless WMA is probably the most well supported. >> >> You can use goldwave to convert from WAV to lossless WMA and back. >> >> Regards. >> >> Kevin >> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Gary Petraccaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 3:17 PM >> Subject: Lossless >> >> >> > Is there a best lossless format in terms of sound? Is there a quickest >> > for going from .WAV to that format and back? Aside from WMP and Sound >> > Forge, what programs work with the other formats? >> > As always, thanks in advance >> > >> > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> > http://www.pc-audio.org >> > >> > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> >> >> >> Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> http://www.pc-audio.org >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Bruce Toews > E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.ogts.net > Radio Show and Podcast: http://www.totw.net > Info on the Best TV Show of All Time: http://www.cornergas.com > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
