I did my A/B test with a good pair of headphones. One thing that I
noticed immediately -- the "soundstage" for an MP3 song (in comparison
with a non-compressed one) just collapses into practically nothing. A
song that immediately comes to mind is Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow
Taxi". The acoustic guitar that opens the song is really "alive" in the
non-compressed version. Almost flat in the MP3. All the notes are
there, but the "stuff you won't ever miss" is gone. You may not hear
it, but you'll notice when it's gone.
Robert
Patrick Dixon wrote:
Again IME, it's the small differences that you hear in a short A-B
listening test, that make the big differences to your enjoyment over
the longer term.
"Source first" is a hi-fi adage, and you can't get much more 'source
first' than looking after the bits on your disk. You can then buy a
better pair of speakers (or whatever) down the road, and not worry that
you can now hear the compression artifacts.
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