Daverz;500630 Wrote: > Marco, when you say you can tell the difference after 20 seconds, can > you describe the qualities of the sound that you use to differentiate? > > Also, what about AIFF files? They can have an ID3 metadata block.
Hi, Daverz. I was using two different track for the test: - Old Love - Eric Clapton - Umplugged - Coro con - La creazione, Joseph Haydn, NY philarmonic, L. Bernstein, J. Raskin, A. Young, J Reardon - 1968" (track 2 Cd1). Note that I know very well those tracks, that i'm using since quite a lot of time to compare audio devices or testing purpose. In the first test (listening to the entire track, one at once) I was using Hydn, and the major differences was: a) Stereo Image: Playng the Wave file, the scene is more focused and deeper, but smaller, the choir is in behind and well distributed over the scene, then you have the Orchestra and ahead soloist, Tenore in the left, Bass in the right, Sopran in the middle. With Flac, the scene is larger but more 'compressed' in depth, there is a 'hole' in the middle of the choir and the bass is like it was 'sitted' (i'm using emphasis, just to explain), Choir is over the orchestra and Soprano is a little shifted to the left. b)Sound 'color': Playng Flac, voices & arcs are a little bit 'harder', 'brigthter' and cold, some 'electric' take place all over, in wave they are smoorher, some more air around and more 'natural', silence is more like ...silence. Major difference in the Bass Voice, is more 'present' in WAV. In the second test (listening to a short piece, until the firts few seconds of Eric Clapton singing of both tracks) I forced myself to point some detail: a. The Guitar attach and swinging. b. The piano. c. The pubblic voices and applauses at the realy beginning. d. The Eric Voice and the Bass. Major differences in voices and applauses, in WAV are much more real, Eric Voice is smoother and Bass is behind and a little on the rigth side, Piano and Guitar are brigther in FLAC, but better focused and 'round' in WAV. Over all, in FLAC I feel like the atmosphere is eletric, everythimg is brighter but a little hurting, something like (but is nor realy like that) when you listen a live show and at the end is silence, but when they switch off the AMPS you realize it was NOT realy silence... Sorry about that, but my bad English cant't support me in describing this sort of feeling using the rigth words as I would like, I hope you could at least figure what i meant. By the way, I did this 'blind' test becouse I was curious to try, but if you take the time to have a longer session listening for say 2 hours, you could experiment yourself how WAV is more relaxing and less hurting, or at least this is my feeling. You can read other impressions in my previous post in this thread, but they become from tests that someone has defined 'not proper'. I think they move to similar conclusion. Hope is useful. Marco. -- marcoc1712 ____________________________________________________________ SB+, Klimo Merlino + Kent Gold, Monitor Audio Studio 20 Gold SE+, Klimo reference and DIS Interconnect. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ marcoc1712's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34842 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71321 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
