ralphpnj;411475 Wrote: > I'm a bit confused here. > > Those in favor of DBT use it as a reason for deriding the subjectivists
Yep, you're confused. As a rule, we don't. > However when the subjectivists point out that DBTs also show that an mp3 > file sounds the same as an uncompressed or losslessly compressed file > the objectivists resort to snide remarks and silly comments. Live by > the sword, die by the sword. It was asserted that DBT was used to show that 128kbps MP3's are "CD Quality". I've seen this claim a lot on the Internet, but there's never much in the way of facts behind it, then or now. For example, while I'm sure you could hand-pick some tracks that produce these results, that's hardly the way any objectivist would test. You could also alter the definition of "CD Quality" such that it doesn't mean "sounds indistinguishable from a CD", but then if you go that far you don't even need to bother testing--just ratchet down your definitions until they meet your needs. I've seen quite a lot of DBT's of 128k MP3's. The results are that they don't sound like lossless. I summarized this as: No. > Basically there are problems with both belief systems and as is often > the case, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. That depends on how you define "truth". -- CatBus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61877 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
