3/6, using decent but not perfect headphones. The 128kbps MP3s were obvious every time, the difference between 320 and lossless wasn't. I didn't have an ounce of doubt with the classical performance, as it has certain tell-tale signs I'm used to listening for, the others weren't quite so clear-cut.
The Real Wizard · Member since
This comment on the bottom is bang on:
"You have explained what is BOGUS about this "test": no instructions on what to listen for! The same is true in any similar endeavor: like wine tasting. Give inexperienced people great and cheap wine and many if not most can't tell them apart...but give them basic tasting/smelling instructions and quickly they get it."
This is the wrong compression discussion to be having. The fact that the Coldplay song (and virtually everything produced for mainstream radio today) is brickwalled with no aural space to breathe is one of the biggest problems in today's music industry. My favourite record of the last decade is Muse's Black Holes And Revelations, and it sounds like crap - the compression destroys the sound, as there is little peak to average ratio. Lossy/lossless doesn't begin to address that issue.
thomasquinn 32989 · Member since
Very true. As usual, wise words from The Real Wizard.
matt z · Member since
^hooray not for captain Spaulding. That visage was from the Obama campaign. . Possibly the FIRST TERM.
When will it change (again? ) who IS this THOMAS QUINN??
When's the "Marxism" motif gonna end?
Btw USELESS INFO FACT: as revealed through the biographies and information of the day. .. did you know that "captain Spaulding" of the teens and twenties was a drug dealer/bootleger?
You'll find plenty info about this character when studying early Hollywood and the Cukor/Arbuckle situation.
