I definitely think you should do a blind listening comparison on a few tracks you know really well. You'll need a helper to ensure that it's truly a blind test (and turn off the display on your squeezebox). If it's not a blind test, you're going to hear whatever you expect to hear.
I did this with a song encoded at 128k mp3, high bitrate VBR mp3 (LAME alt extreme), and lossless. The 128k file jumped out right away. The other two were very hard to tell apart, but I felt one of them just sounded a bit crisper, and that turned out to be the lossless file. The difference was really small, but still noticeable. Based on that test, I have been encoding all my new music lossless. I have a decent midrange system, but nothing crazy- no external DAC or anything like that. -- superbad _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
