Egad! Only 2/6
And I was really trying.
And I was really trying.
Yup, I doubt my choices would be the same! I have heard problems with 128kbps MP3s, so I encode my CDs at 320. HDD space is cheap.ez wrote: I'd like to see people who did this test, repeat it next week, making sure you forgot which choices went where. I have a feeling that most of these high scores were luck and I'd like to see the aggregate scores of everyone who tried it. I've known for a while that I can hardly tell the difference between 320kbps and wav files, even with my fancy cans. I can tell when the audio is ripped badly or compressed beyond what is reasonable but when the quality gets above 196kbps it starts getting tricky and I don't actually care anymore.
Mixerboy wrote: so it's an mp3 of an mp3.
When you listen focus on one element in the mix rather than trying to listen to as many of the instruments as possible. This works for me. I tend to focus on high mid frequencies of a certain instrument (snare or violin for instance) when trying to distinguish the difference.deefstes wrote: Pardon my French but... What The Foudroyer!?!?
I got only 1/6 and I can't say that I'm confident is didn't involve a bit of lucky guess. The only one I got right was the classical piece.
Yes some people do. Though it isn't ideal because transcoding a lossy compressed audio file (320kbps mp3 for instance) to another lossy compressed audio file (128kbps mp3 for instance) degrades the audio quality more than what transcoding an uncompressed audio file (1441kbps wave for instance) to a lossy compressed audio file (128kbps mp3 for instance) does.Mixerboy wrote: Its also not uncommon for people to take a 320kbps mp3 and convert it down to 128kbps, so it's an mp3 of an mp3.
+1, that's what I found myself doing.Micron wrote:When you listen focus on one element in the mix rather than trying to listen to as many of the instruments as possible. This works for me. I tend to focus on high mid frequencies of a certain instrument (snare or violin for instance) when trying to distinguish the difference.deefstes wrote: Pardon my French but... What The Foudroyer!?!?
I got only 1/6 and I can't say that I'm confident is didn't involve a bit of lucky guess. The only one I got right was the classical piece.