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Yeah it seems to me like there's no real difference between 320 and flac unless you have a really nice expensive system and a room with good acoustics (or nice headphones I suppose). There's definitely a difference you can hear between 160 and flac or 320 though. I'm not complaining, I know I can't expect much out of free music. Just trying to help people who might not realize that what there getting isn't what they think it is.
Here's the opening of the same song, first from a .flac I torrented and then from a 160kbps mp3 I transcoded from that .flac. Identical except for the noise above the flac's cut off at the same frequency as the mp3. 23.1 mb vs 4.14 mb for the exact same audio output, so more than five times the file size with not difference in quality because it's a bad transcode. People need to be aware of this shit, that's a lot of wasted storage.