For everyone who wonders why 16kbps sounds like you're in the room next door it's because it doesn't allow for enough high frequencies to come through so sounds muffled therefore creating a low pass filter of sorts
Correct, the higher the bandwidth the wider the range of frequences that can be recorded. That's why music played over a phone call (like when you're waiting on hold) sounds so bad, the codecs were only designed for the frequency range of human speech to save bandwidth and fit as many calls as possible on a satellite or fiberoptic cable.
If you've looked up Nyquist's principle, you'll see you're right. Treble makes use of shorter wavelengths. But sometimes, those wavelengths are shorter lengths of time than the sampling rate. If the soundwave is shorter than the sample rate, that sound isn't recorded. So you're right. As the bitrate is deepened, more treble is added because the sample rate becomes quick enough to actually record the shorter fluctuations in the waveform.
I wasn't expecting that literally different sounds would suddenly be audible, just that the quality would be different. Pretty neat, never seen a comparison like this before.
I think a comparison like this would work better with a more complex multi-layered orchestral piece. This only seems to have a few tracks at once, and I think something with many tracks would make the differences more obvious at higher bitrates.
It's already very apparent in this test. You hear more and more spatial information at 64/128/256 as the harmonics of the high frequency echoes are also captured with the higher sample rates. Your average Joe will probably be content with 64/128kb/s as they are listening to MP3s anyway.
It’s because analog or “real” instruments are more complex to capture and render, as they’re more “natural” and also tend to have a lot more high-end and overtones. There’s a few tracks I have in my “audio demo list” that I always go to for checking the higher-end of a system or headphones or speakers or whatever, one particularly has a really loud and slicing gong. If that one’s either harsh or dull, something’s not right about the output.
@@Qui-Gon_Jinn69 wrong, youtube is mp4 which is 320kbps the cool thing about mp4 is that even though it matches mp3 highest quality 320 kbps when uploaded to youtube which is mp4 for some reason the natural sounds of the instruments of an ORIGINAL WAV or FLAC file are 40% retained, so its not as compressed as an mp3 you can certainly hear just a bit more of the high end crispy sounds, unfortunately those people saying they cant hear a difference at such low kbps from 128 to 256 clearly dont have a high quality pair of headphones with the proper DAC to drive them or they dont have a set of good speakers with calibrated tweeters and subwoofers to hear much of a difference but 1 thing is for certain, if your speakers are cheap it doesnt matter what type of format you play your music through you will never be able to tell a difference HOWEVER 16 and 32 kbps are such sheet quality it can be heard by a set of old 1990s microsoft windows pc speakers, you know the ones... with cheap yellowy plastic and silver plastic volume knobs *shudders* uuuugh ok thats enough youtube for 1 day
@@ernestochang1744 1. mp3 and mp4 sounds bad either way even on 320 kbps 2. there's no 320 kbps on TH-cam, turn on stats for nerds, it will show how many kbps you have
Just so people know, and this is putting it simply: You’ll generally hear most difference in the higher-end, as in the higher frequencies, because those generally need more data to be rendered or resolved than lower frequencies (which are just less complex). And since bitrate refers to the amount of data per second, that’s where it will lose or gain most of the data. - And so of course there’s a point of diminishing returns with that, in terms in how much you’ll notice it. Lossless is simply no loss and the original render is 100% intact, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that lossy loses so much that it’s not coherent anymore.
After 64 kbps it was difficult to distinguish any difference. And I have a separate dac/amp and hi-fi headphones. I guess it's neat that even free Discord you don't miss out on that much.
@@vikt ya, just like apple earbuds, beats, etc do not benefit from a “pure” sounding compression or decompression because there audio representation is not very good
interesting that if you go low enough it stops sounding BAD to sound DIFFERENT 16kbps was completely different, a great lofi, 32 and 64 kbps had that annoying "water in the bucket" sound, anything above that was clear again.
I would have liked to hear how 160 and 192 compare as well. I haven't downloaded or recorded 128 in ages. (and I'm surprised TH-cam goes as high as 256)
@@wunpis9541 Apple Music offers one of the highest quality audio in a streaming service, but is really expensive and doesn’t have as wide of a music library as Spotify does
thats probably the highest quality 16kbps sample ive heard before , i was expecting a garbly compressed mess but it just for the most part sounds like the high end was cut by a lot
Honest question here - I also heard that TH-cam's resolution options also affect sound quality, is this true? I've been told the higher the resolution quality of the video, the better the audio bitrate is, too.
@@w6ndrr Well, I doubt the audio would change drastically as even half a bit rate would work for a TH-cam vid - I think - So, there is no correlation between TH-cam's resolution and audio? At all?
@@dancho0012 Yes, wired is the best form of transmission. You can improve your audio quality even further by getting better headphones and/or something that can process audio better, like a console or dedicated DAC. (Digital to Analog Converter, I use the FiiO BTR5)
@@stargazer8g2 Yes but the signal is still altered so that it can be transmitted then it's converted back on the headphones. That's twice the signal is being changed, that's besides it being put through the same things coming from yotuubes server.
It's like this: 16 kbps = 90s AOL Dialup, listening on WinAmp vibe ; 32 kbps = early 2000s realplayer von Windows XP(maybe even 98/ME/2000) vibe (and Yahoo! Music, if anyone remembers that :D) ; 64 kbps = around 2006 - 2009 listening to mp3s on Windows Vista/7 (maybe even a bit XP) and watching the Animations in the player; 128 kbps = early 2010s the mp3s you bought on Google Play Music on your Android 2.3 / 4.0.4 Device; 256 kbps = 2015 - 2017 to present.
Technically analog is always better because it's a smooth wave instead of square-y looking approximation of a wave but digital audio has such a high sample rate that it's impossible to really distinguish digital from analog one by sound
@@gsscala Probably more. Digital audio formats didn't really exist in 1986 when the song was being recorded, so they recorded to tape instead, which can bring much higher audio quality. This is the reason why vinyl records have superior sound to digital audio.
I'm and audiophile and I listen to 1440kps CD audio quality and its so good but hearing the 16kbs makes me miss the old days of TH-cam playing mp3 from ares, listening to music in an ipod, viewing DVD movies, playing flash games all the day
If you want to save storage on your computer and still get a decent sound quality, 64 or 128 is good depends on how much you care about quality over storage.
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The more serious version of the "4 bits, 8 bits, 16 bits, 32 bits, 64 bits, 128 bits" meme
xD
Mas bien es la Comparación del sonido nada más
I actually thought that this was one of those videos xd
@@ke--vin Si yo sé, pero lo titulo del vídeo recuérdame deso meme.
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I like how each level you can hear new details that literally didn't exist on the lower ends.
Yeah, lower you go, and higher the frequencies get cut off the song
ahh yes sampling rates
To me 128 and 256 sounds almost the same.
@@sali-ali cuz TH-cam only allows 128kbps
@@sali-ali I can hear the difference but I'm wearing earphones
The 16 kbps brings back those Nintendo DS days
It makes me remember the mobile days of like 2013-2015 on pixel gun 3d
@@gammacxygames I used to play pixel gun 3d to
i use an headset from 2019 in the dsi xl.
And yes the quality is a litte bit diferent but the mic doesn't work.
The DS usually didn't play audio files like that, most of the songs were midi
@ionstar751 :D flipnote hatena
For everyone who wonders why 16kbps sounds like you're in the room next door it's because it doesn't allow for enough high frequencies to come through so sounds muffled therefore creating a low pass filter of sorts
Может, если не пропускаются высокие частоты, то это фильтр высоких частот?
It sound like listening it from underwater
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Actually the 16kbps sounds really nice, it has kind of a nostalgic vibe
Kind of like listening to RealPlayer over dial-up Internet in the 90's.
Yeah probably cause in the 90's you didn't have a very good audio quality...
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16 kbps pov: you are alone in toilet while during party
@Terra Gamer lol yeah
@Terra Gamer thanks
Lmao, cracked me up
true af
You waana go toilet with someone
16 KBPS sounds like one of those scenes in movies where the camera is outside but it's pointed at a party happening indoors.
Such a nice description
now we know how to do that effect without going outside
That's because the compression kills the high frequencies, just like walls...
@@Chisarai That's almost but not quite how it works
There is a feature for that called lowpass
Who else saw the 24fps v 30fps v 60fps on their recommended and ended up watching all of these videos???
me lmfao
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Lol me too
It honestly feels like treble is gradually being introduced to the music as it upgrades
Correct, the higher the bandwidth the wider the range of frequences that can be recorded. That's why music played over a phone call (like when you're waiting on hold) sounds so bad, the codecs were only designed for the frequency range of human speech to save bandwidth and fit as many calls as possible on a satellite or fiberoptic cable.
@@bwc1976 the more you know
If you've looked up Nyquist's principle, you'll see you're right. Treble makes use of shorter wavelengths. But sometimes, those wavelengths are shorter lengths of time than the sampling rate. If the soundwave is shorter than the sample rate, that sound isn't recorded. So you're right. As the bitrate is deepened, more treble is added because the sample rate becomes quick enough to actually record the shorter fluctuations in the waveform.
Treble and Bass. Treble for higher pitch and frequencies while Bass for wider and deeper depth as well as lower frequencies
I wasn't expecting that literally different sounds would suddenly be audible, just that the quality would be different. Pretty neat, never seen a comparison like this before.
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0:03 Old flash games be like:
@P43DA704 настольгия 😭👍😩😩😩
@P43DA704 idk how old u are but Pixel Gun 3D was released in 2013 and not at all during the big flash games era
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16kbps sounds really nice imo, it gives me a nostalgic feeling which i cannot explain
Listening to music in the womb...🎃 "in utero"
I think a comparison like this would work better with a more complex multi-layered orchestral piece. This only seems to have a few tracks at once, and I think something with many tracks would make the differences more obvious at higher bitrates.
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It's already very apparent in this test. You hear more and more spatial information at 64/128/256 as the harmonics of the high frequency echoes are also captured with the higher sample rates. Your average Joe will probably be content with 64/128kb/s as they are listening to MP3s anyway.
@@SixDasher 64 is kinda crap, 128 is like a comfortable floor to me
It’s because analog or “real” instruments are more complex to capture and render, as they’re more “natural” and also tend to have a lot more high-end and overtones. There’s a few tracks I have in my “audio demo list” that I always go to for checking the higher-end of a system or headphones or speakers or whatever, one particularly has a really loud and slicing gong. If that one’s either harsh or dull, something’s not right about the output.
this is what i was thinking too , this example sounds more or less like the high end was just simply cut than anything
why did I think this would be the bitwars meme-
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32 kbps is the sound of early 2000s RealPlayer nostalgia
How on earth did i find this video within hours of it getting posted?
lol same
Me too
Yup
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Same
Thanks for this cool video! I really couldn't tell the difference between 128 and 256, it maybe sounded a little clearer.
So do i
because there isn't a difference, TH-cam allows only 128 kbps
@@Qui-Gon_Jinn69 wrong, youtube is mp4 which is 320kbps the cool thing about mp4 is that even though it matches mp3 highest quality 320 kbps when uploaded to youtube which is mp4 for some reason the natural sounds of the instruments of an ORIGINAL WAV or FLAC file are 40% retained, so its not as compressed as an mp3 you can certainly hear just a bit more of the high end crispy sounds, unfortunately those people saying they cant hear a difference at such low kbps from 128 to 256 clearly dont have a high quality pair of headphones with the proper DAC to drive them or they dont have a set of good speakers with calibrated tweeters and subwoofers to hear much of a difference but 1 thing is for certain, if your speakers are cheap it doesnt matter what type of format you play your music through you will never be able to tell a difference HOWEVER 16 and 32 kbps are such sheet quality it can be heard by a set of old 1990s microsoft windows pc speakers, you know the ones... with cheap yellowy plastic and silver plastic volume knobs *shudders* uuuugh ok thats enough youtube for 1 day
@@ernestochang1744 1. mp3 and mp4 sounds bad either way even on 320 kbps
2. there's no 320 kbps on TH-cam, turn on stats for nerds, it will show how many kbps you have
@@Qui-Gon_Jinn69 the video is acctualy 192 kbps
Great video. I always love somebody who make an educational video and explain it straight to the point.
16 KBPS sounds like calling someone when they're in their car and they're playing music
Or calling insurance/the ISP.
0:18 elevator music in the 80's
When you can’t tell the difference because your device is capped at 16kbps:
*cries in poor*
@Kartoffelbrei It was a joke
@@AimlessFr this would be an irrelevant joke cause youtube itself doesn't support 16 bit audio hardware devices, cause it crashes..
Let me guess, you watch this at Nokia 6600 ? Lol
@@gmt69420 what are you talking about? I have 192khz at 24-bits and it ain't crashing.
@@NarutoMagicCyclops My headphones are showing up as 48khz @ 16bits, still no problems
16 is like those songs that play on a phone call when you're on hold
The best phone calls are only around 9kbps. And that’s when using my nicer Cisco SIP phone with “HD” codecs.
Cool comparison, remind me when 32 and 64 KBS was my everyday pain when i had a 128mb MP3 player in the 00's.
Timestamps -
0:05 - 16kbps
0:18 - 32kbps
0:31 - 64kbps
0:44 - 128kbps
0:58 - 256kbps
0:57
I dunno, but with 16 kbps it's sounds like a very old lo-fi song.
I did not expect the difference between them without hearing this video .. Thank you!
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Just so people know, and this is putting it simply: You’ll generally hear most difference in the higher-end, as in the higher frequencies, because those generally need more data to be rendered or resolved than lower frequencies (which are just less complex). And since bitrate refers to the amount of data per second, that’s where it will lose or gain most of the data. - And so of course there’s a point of diminishing returns with that, in terms in how much you’ll notice it. Lossless is simply no loss and the original render is 100% intact, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that lossy loses so much that it’s not coherent anymore.
Simple yet powerful comparison 🙏🏻🙏🏻
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This felt like it cleaned my ear
If anyone is wondering about why the quality difference is so large, look into the Nyquist theorem, as well as sample rate and bit depth :D.
300k and only 4 days ago, awesome work!! Keep going!
*English teacher:* Let's sing a song! 🤗
*The audio:* 0:04
I love how 16 kbps bring me back to flash-programing peak era
After 64 kbps it was difficult to distinguish any difference. And I have a separate dac/amp and hi-fi headphones. I guess it's neat that even free Discord you don't miss out on that much.
wow. never realized that the amount of kbps actually could take out parts of the music. dont mnow why that didnt click, but damn.
Yeah it cuts off the high and low frequencies.
16KBPS reminds me of those 2000's racing games
I definitely noticed a difference on all levels but couldn't find any between 128 and 256
That's because all TH-cam videos are compressed (approximately to around 126 kbps AAC)
pov: Your scrolling through the comments and seeing most of the top ones saying “16 kbps”
16 kps/32 kps is like what Walmart uses in their shops
The low end and high end are like you're hearing two different songs.
2007 People at 16 KBPS: *damn this goes hard*
16 KBPS POV: When you try to cover your ears.
An amazing video as always, and 16 KBPS is like underwater haha! ( and reminds me of something nostalgic,
a kind of muffled sound)
Wanna feel nostalgic? This is the Synthwave anthem th-cam.com/video/8GW6sLrK40k/w-d-xo.html
It's curious how similar both songs are
I can't tell the difference between 64kbps and those above
Headphones bud headphones
@@BonRon2204 i did use headphones. The difference wasnt staggering or anything though. Sure, there was *some* difference, but it was pretty small
@@vikt 128 sounds slightly better. 256 is a waste
@@vikt probably because of limited kbps in your head phones. I dont hear differnce between 128 and 258 kpbs
@@vikt ya, just like apple earbuds, beats, etc do not benefit from a “pure” sounding compression or decompression because there audio representation is not very good
16 sounds like your outside a club or a car with a good sound system is like on the other side of the parking lot
Thanks for the comparison man. it really help me a lots
16kpbs sounds so good
interesting that if you go low enough it stops sounding BAD to sound DIFFERENT
16kbps was completely different, a great lofi, 32 and 64 kbps had that annoying "water in the bucket" sound, anything above that was clear again.
16 kbps is like the sound of a VHS tape
I would not say
Replay - Free
16KBPS - 00:05
32KBPS - 00:18
64KBPS - 00:31
128KBPS - 00:44
256KBPS - 00:57
256 Kbps - Normal music
16 Kbps - Underwater music
Interesting... New subscriber! :D
16kbps gave a different vibe but 256kbps was so good
And I can barely differ between 128 and 256kbps
Mp3: I have 320 kbs
TH-cam: 256 actually
16kbps sounds like some vaporwave thing and it's lit af
Sounds more like a pixel type FPS game tried to make a party map and this was the background music
Keep it up bro extremely cool comparison
Can't wait to see this in 6-7 years.
64kbps : 최소한은 듣게 해줄께 (쇳소리가 거슬림)
128kbps : 여기서부터 들을만한 최소한의 커트라인
(음이 뭔가 끊어지는 듯한 느낌과 eq주면 노래에 따라 파열음이 느껴짐 )
256kbps : 음 분리도 향상은 물론 생동감도 크게향상
I would have liked to hear how 160 and 192 compare as well. I haven't downloaded or recorded 128 in ages. (and I'm surprised TH-cam goes as high as 256)
many services now are using 320kbps (except for Apple Music which uses like 2444kbps)
@@ItsHonski whatt?????
@@wunpis9541 Apple Music offers one of the highest quality audio in a streaming service, but is really expensive and doesn’t have as wide of a music library as Spotify does
Coincidently stumbled upon the channel's 4th video after the past 3 years
thats probably the highest quality 16kbps sample ive heard before , i was expecting a garbly compressed mess but it just for the most part sounds like the high end was cut by a lot
16kbps: Nintendo ds speakers
32kbps:Windows vista time period
64:kbps gta 4
128:kbps gta 5
When i use Windows XP without Realtek drivers !
Sound blaster card
Vid suggestion: Do WAV, AIFF, mp3 etc. files next
It's kinda pointless to have even the 256 kbps one since youtube makes everything 192 @ 38 Khz AAC
@Kartoffelbrei I think its 44.1khz.
Honest question here - I also heard that TH-cam's resolution options also affect sound quality, is this true?
I've been told the higher the resolution quality of the video, the better the audio bitrate is, too.
No, one time I had to play a video in 144p due to poor connection and the audio was still perfect.
@@w6ndrr
Well, I doubt the audio would change drastically as even half a bit rate would work for a TH-cam vid - I think -
So, there is no correlation between TH-cam's resolution and audio? At all?
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Hmm. I thought I could hear a difference, but wasn't sure.
Now I know there is a difference.
Thanks for your reply! :)
While wearing headphones: Opus 128 - 160Kbps
144p with headphones: Opus 64Kbps
No headphones: Opus 48Kbps
The different audio quality combined makes thus song better. Evolution through Internet speed.
Awesome man💖
The quality also depends on what device you’re on and what headphones your using, also whether or not you’re on Bluetooth/wired.
Is wired better?
@@dancho0012 Yes, wired is the best form of transmission.
You can improve your audio quality even further by getting better headphones and/or something that can process audio better, like a console or dedicated DAC. (Digital to Analog Converter, I use the FiiO BTR5)
@@justincarrington4157 glad I chose to buy wired then. Thank you for the explanation!
I really don't think that you really miss out much on bluetooth because bitrates of modern bluetooth codecs are quite high (320 kbps and up)
@@stargazer8g2 Yes but the signal is still altered so that it can be transmitted then it's converted back on the headphones.
That's twice the signal is being changed, that's besides it being put through the same things coming from yotuubes server.
It's like this:
16 kbps = 90s AOL Dialup, listening on WinAmp vibe ; 32 kbps = early 2000s realplayer von Windows XP(maybe even 98/ME/2000) vibe (and Yahoo! Music, if anyone remembers that :D) ; 64 kbps = around 2006 - 2009 listening to mp3s on Windows Vista/7 (maybe even a bit XP) and watching the Animations in the player; 128 kbps = early 2010s the mp3s you bought on Google Play Music on your Android 2.3 / 4.0.4 Device; 256 kbps = 2015 - 2017 to present.
Y 320 ?
No creo que se note mucho, ya que TH-cam solo procesa hasta 128 kbps
@@benjaminbadilla162 аххахахах какие 128 Кбпс???
TH-cam support 320kbps sound
@@Un-random cambia de audífonos
Why stop at 320? Get some linear PCM in there and keep going to 1411kbps. My field recorder does 5000kbps recordings.
THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO! it’s very helpful and insightful
What codec are using because that is really important. Opus, Vorbis, AAC or MP3? all those codecs have different quality at the same bitrate.
See directly 1:10
What about 8, 4, 2, 1, 1/2, 1/4, and WG KBPS
That's from the 64 bit, 32 bit, 16 bit, 8 bit, 4 bit, 2 bit, 1 bit, half-bit, a quarter of bit meme.
The wrist game KBPS would be just LCD sound effects
64 kbps is all you need
128 kbps is good with all the details
256 kbps (i think) is a bit overkilled.
this is why analog audio systems like vinyl records are just better. You miss out on so much information when you compress for streaming. Fun video
Technically analog is always better because it's a smooth wave instead of square-y looking approximation of a wave but digital audio has such a high sample rate that it's impossible to really distinguish digital from analog one by sound
It sounds like instruments are added but that quality just doesn't allow to hear it in the way it is intended
If you dont hear any difference between those five, I have a bad news for you...
And the bad news is that your volume is at 0 so turn it up lol
@@Human-lx2hs lmao
I dont hear difference with 128 and 256 so???
Maybe at slit defference,b ut I dont know if that is real, or I just think.
@@sebasromero2505 I mean between 1st and last one...
You should have Used never gonna give you up
@@gsscala Probably more. Digital audio formats didn't really exist in 1986 when the song was being recorded, so they recorded to tape instead, which can bring much higher audio quality. This is the reason why vinyl records have superior sound to digital audio.
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@@YavuzHavuz cause he is tommy
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32 kbps is like unsuccessful advertising
Amazing comparison
What has TH-cam recommended me
Recentemente o TH-cam diaponibilizou uma configuração para os novos headsets 24d da Razer, Samsung e LG. A versão 490kbps.
Fact: You didn't search for this.
256 kbps: you are playing the music
16 kbps: your neighbour is playing the music
New subscriber bro, i like this videos
pierwsza przed milionem
Drugi
Buen video pero para mi los 256kbps ya son muy bajos ya que yo descargo musica a 1411Kbps y la diferencia es muy grande
Wow damm
Basado. Hago lo mismo
64 KBPS is far enough in my review. I don't see such differences after that
I'm and audiophile and I listen to 1440kps CD audio quality and its so good but hearing the 16kbs makes me miss the old days of TH-cam playing mp3 from ares, listening to music in an ipod, viewing DVD movies, playing flash games all the day
16KBPS might have some real useful applications in a lofi hiphop setting.
It fits
0:44 128 kbps
16 KBPS was music in roblox when it was just starting out.
That 16 kbps sound is now a days used in lo-fi & reverbed musics
If you want to save storage on your computer and still get a decent sound quality, 64 or 128 is good depends on how much you care about quality over storage.
128 or 256, take them or leave em
64 is crap really, 128 is like ground floor