firedog;581828 Wrote: 
> 
> BTW, this has also been shown in research: random subjects were often
> unable to differentiate between compressed and uncompressed files, but
> "audiophiles" were.
> 

I remember one audiophile tester at the audio magazin mp3 test was able
to difference most mp3s. That was because of a hearing loss and masking
didn´t work with his ears to well. The other studies i read over time
didn´t have audiophiles that were clearly better at picking mp3´s. 
I spent much time with lame and mp3. I was one of the persons that
helped tuning lame 10 years back when it wasn´t that mature. I found
several samples that were used for tuning. These were mostly samples
with obvious artifacts to my ears, not everybodys. And over time i had
many "mp3 is sh**" listeners that couldn´t tell me if it is the mp3 or
wav when burned back to cd.
I think i am a very critical listener and try to avoid to fool myself.
That isn´t easy cause it happens pretty fast.


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