opaqueice;277809 Wrote: > So he's claiming that by looking at a graph of this particular test-tone > he can tell whether or not these effects are audible on music. And yet > he didn't bother to do a listening test - in the time it took him to > prepare that article, he could have performed a whole series. -That- > would have been interesting, because what most people really want to > know is which format to use and at what level of compression. This > kind of vague cursory analysis and unsubstantiated statements isn't > useful. > > Frankly, I very much doubt he would have been able to hear the > differences between 320 MP3 or AAC and CD (at least not without lots of > practice and choosing the test track very carefully), and after all the > whining Stereophile has been doing recently that wouldn't look very > good.
Yes, a typical JA article. This is the man who won't listen to a SET amp as he considers it a tone control, IIRC. It would be so easy for them to do a detailed blind test using a high resolution system; they could even highlight any changes in the results generated by the listeners getting familiar with the MP3/AAC artefacts. That would have been interesting! The vague 'ooh look at those charts' tone of the article is at best pointless, at worst misleading. Moral: don't expect investigative reporting in the hifi press! -- adamslim Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others SB+, EAR V20, Living Voice OBX-R2s plus some other stuff SB3, Charlize, Harbeth HL-P3ES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44532 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
