# Can spectrogram lie about audio quality?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-spectrogram-lie-about-audio-quality/17591
**Category:** Off-Topic
**Created:** [January 26, 2016, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-spectrogram-lie-about-audio-quality/17591 "2016-01-26T20:07:26Z")
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### Author: ![stevehero](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/stevehero/32/337_2.png) [@stevehero](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/stevehero)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2018, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-spectrogram-lie-about-audio-quality/17591/20 "2018-02-15T14:57:32Z")

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Just to show you.

 ![](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e3304fdeda7227ba31250458c16a7bdff9ab5845.jpg)

Compared to **Fakin' The Funks** redition. Look at the resolution of the higher frequencies and the cutoff. It's what's called a `lossy master`.

 ![flac](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/f/f7f1051543f81c1b024d0559387adb693d850653.png)

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