Archimago wrote: > I think the results will be surprising for most. I was certainly > surprised as I checked the survey day to day and started to see the bias > / significance building strongly a couple weeks into the test! > > Bottom line - most respondents thought the lossless Set sounded > "inferior"! > > archimago.blogspot.com
This is not at all unexpected but actually something you'll find with almost every ABX test on mp3, have seen it myself when doing such tests in the past. The cause is probably the psychoacoustic compression. To compress, mp3 uses heuristics that are known (from actual tests) to preserve perceived SQ while dropping information. Mp3 got developed with the goal to have the best sounding result at a given bitrate and it's been tested and re-tested to get close to this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98010 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
