"Michael Chare" wrote in message
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I have been struggling to hear much (any) difference between flac and
320kbps mp3 files pulled from the free downloads on the Naim website.
but then I also found that the max frequency I can here is more like
11,000 Hz compared with the 15,500 Hz I could hear in the 60s.

It would appear that I am not alone in not being able to tell the
difference:
http://www.trustedreviews.com/mp3/re...-Good-To-Me/p1

Can anyone hear the difference?


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Michael Chare
Flac is a lossless codec, and 320kbps MP3 is generally considered to be
transparent, so I'm not surprised there isn't an audible difference. Whilst
your hearing loss won't help, the artifacts audible on lossy codecs are not
confined to high frequencies, so you will probably still be able to hear the
artifacts on MP3s at lower bit rates.

S.