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Originally Posted by blumathu
Most of the DMB FLAC downloads are equivalent to CD quality, which is better than MP3 quality. Some of the FLACs are even better than CD quality. Plenty of devices support FLAC playback, you don't need to convert it to mp3 to listen to it.
I always buy FLAC, and most of the time listen to FLAC. But sometimes I convert to mp3 for listening on a USB stick in the car, because I generally can't tell the difference between FLAC and MP3 with all the road noise. And using MP3 takes up much less space on my flash drive.
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Yes, that is a great point about road noise when in a car. That is one of the reasons I put 320 kbps mp3s onto the iPhone and then sync with CarPlay. I can still fit plenty of music on my 128 GiB iPhone, and even though I have the Vox App on Apple CarPlay, you are right that it is hard to discern a difference when you are driving, between ambient noise and concentrating on the task at hand.
I can really only appreciate high-res audio when I am sitting down with a good pair of headphones, or otherwise hanging in my basement where my hi-fi equipment is set up. It is in those situations when I am happy to pull up Vox on my laptop or phone, and enjoy the quality of the music without any distractions!
Pro-tip: I picked up a iFi audio hip dac portable USB DAC, and it really makes a HUGE difference when listening to FLAC files on my iPhone through a nice set of ear buds.