garym wrote: > No, I'm talking about tests with people that have good systems and do > care. Obviously there are probably millions of people who are perfectly > happy with 128kbps lossy files. That's not the target group I'm > referring to. And please don't play "well I guess if you can't hear the > difference you're system is not resolving enough" card. This is of > course nonsense on several dimensions.
I agree with this comment, garym. In the MP3 test I ran late last year into Feb 2013, the folks with more expensive systems (reportedly >$6000) actually PREFERRED the MP3 tracks even more! This is with the ~150 respondents I received. This was a surprise finding for me. Obviously audio lovers / audiophiles (aka audio geeks) who would download ~75MB of test music, sit around to listen to 3 different tracks from different genres, and then fill out a multi-question survey for me didn't in general hear massive differences... callesoroe: What song(s) did you use to test this? I'd love to have a listen to this track myself. For those who haven't had a look, here are the posts for the MP3 test a few months ago: Preamble: http://archimago.blogspot.ca/2013/01/high-bitrate-mp3-results-part-0-preamble.html - I still haven't heard from Neil Young about this :-) Procedure: http://archimago.blogspot.ca/2013/02/high-bitrate-mp3-internet-blind-test.html Results: http://archimago.blogspot.ca/2013/02/high-bitrate-mp3-internet-blind-test_3422.html Discussion: http://archimago.blogspot.ca/2013/02/high-bitrate-mp3-internet-blind-test_2.html Subjective Comments: http://archimago.blogspot.ca/2013/02/high-bitrate-internet-blind-test-part-4.html - Look at the comments from those who chose Set A (incorrectly). They didn't seem to hear veils and such and thought the lossy was FLAC... Although I don't claim the data to be the end of the debate, at least I can say I have tried my best to receive input on this topic in a way that concealed the MP3 file's identity and thus as best I can tell, the results represent a blinded test of music going through the LAME encoder (twice in fact!). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98374 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
