Originally posted by: Mojo_LA
And to those who CAN hear the difference, many audio magazines have done the double blind listening test with compressed and uncompressed sources over and over again and the results are always the same - no one can definitively hear the difference.
If someone can point me to a test which has shown otherwise, I'd really love to see it.
LINKAnd to those who CAN hear the difference, many audio magazines have done the double blind listening test with compressed and uncompressed sources over and over again and the results are always the same - no one can definitively hear the difference.
If someone can point me to a test which has shown otherwise, I'd really love to see it.
For a problematic sample of trance music, this person could easily detect the difference in an ABX test between "insane quality" MP3 (320kbps CBR) and the original uncompressed. However, other codecs such as Nero AAC, Ogg, DualStream or Musepack were harder or impossible to distinguish.
EDIT: should probably point out that the test is 3 years old, and that LAME is now several versions older.