10-07-2020, 11:01 AM
And, after a couple more short-term experiments, I think that I've found at least one thing that's been getting in my way on this one: encoding format.
Yesterday, it dawned on me, in a "Wow, I could've/should've had a V8!" foreheadpalm moment, that, while I don't have the drive space nearby to store the entire FLAC zipfile for OF, I do have the space to store a single FLAC file.
Now, it may be unique to my substitute listening setup (my usual setup is at the home that I haven't seen in months), but switching back to FLAC almost immediately produced more congruent results. Could be timing/coincidence or placebo, but I'm doing my best to measure the difference by observable results, not by expectation of results. Other changes (more volume, more loops) did not have the same effect.
It may be that the performance gap between MP3 and FLAC has widened over the years of build process changes, that my current listening setup is more affected by encoding format than my usual setup, or that it's specific to OF itself, but I don't recall this much difference between MP3 and FLAC previously.
... and this may also mean that my MHS runs during the first half of the year were less effective than they could've been. Argh. Oh well. Lesson learned.
Yesterday, it dawned on me, in a "Wow, I could've/should've had a V8!" foreheadpalm moment, that, while I don't have the drive space nearby to store the entire FLAC zipfile for OF, I do have the space to store a single FLAC file.
Now, it may be unique to my substitute listening setup (my usual setup is at the home that I haven't seen in months), but switching back to FLAC almost immediately produced more congruent results. Could be timing/coincidence or placebo, but I'm doing my best to measure the difference by observable results, not by expectation of results. Other changes (more volume, more loops) did not have the same effect.
It may be that the performance gap between MP3 and FLAC has widened over the years of build process changes, that my current listening setup is more affected by encoding format than my usual setup, or that it's specific to OF itself, but I don't recall this much difference between MP3 and FLAC previously.
... and this may also mean that my MHS runs during the first half of the year were less effective than they could've been. Argh. Oh well. Lesson learned.