darrenyeats;411499 Wrote: > Is that true? I thought I'd read about some blind tests where people > could distinguish between MP3 320 and red book?
It depends on the sample. There really are tracks have not yet been distinguished with any certainty from RedBook at 320k, and there really are tracks that are easily distinguished with high confidence. The question is: if this is the case, would you trust that your collection fits entirely into the former category without testing each track? The most important point is that people tend to misread DBT results. If someone claims a DBT proves people can't tell the difference between X and Y, they are simply wrong. Flat wrong. It doesn't work like that. The most lossy-friendly results possible will say only that X and Y could not be confidently distinguished within the limits of the test. That last clause--"within the limits of the test" is what makes most PC-ABX testing worthless, because those tests are more constrained by their listening setup than the media they're testing. -- 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
