Archimago wrote: > As typical for that site. > > For more details around that 44 vs. 88kHz paper, have a look at this > thread: > http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=82264 > > Remember, only 3/16 listeners in that paper got significant results > overall and all admitted to feeling doubtful about their results. To say > "Within a few seconds, we both realized he had picked the CD-quality > version since it sounded flatter, duller, and mostly just plain worse > than the track we'd listened to earlier" doesn't seem to ring true. If > anything, this speaks to the likelihood of different masterings if > indeed one of the versions sounded much worse than the other. Of course, > that blog post neglects to comment on this or whether perhaps there are > other differences like volume level changes. Don't forget folks, "Ella > and Louis" was recorded in 1956. The tape noise floor on that recording > is high - significantly worse than 16-bits. Just what kind of benefit do > we expect to gain from a high resolution digital version at 24/96? Mike > obviously prefers to poke fun at objective analysis and further his > amazing hearing ability. Yay for him. > > Also, that MP3 test showed no significant preference for CD/MP3 with > 256kbps and 320kbps. That's exactly what many of us here believe and was > shown with the MP3 test last year. In fact, on the graph the "Musician" > group didn't fare well with MP3 128 & 192kbps using acoustic music! Not > sure what he's trying to prove... Again... Yay for him.
with mp3 vs cd all that is required is to find a complicated bit of music and it will be evident that the psychoacoustics employed by mp3 cannot resolve the detail and it becomes slurred, no A/B testing required just listen to a 10s segment for slurred detail compared to the CD version, the detail is either there or not there. Touch optimisations http://touchsgotrythm.blogspot.co.uk/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SBGK's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=52003 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101386 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
