Micron wrote:
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.
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.
+1, that's what I found myself doing.
Although I can't claim my score of 5/6 to be a completely blind test - I saw the wav's were a lot slower to stream than the mp3's...
What I found odd was that I preferred the 320kps mp3's sound to a wav (at moderate listening volume). To me, the wav sounded a bit lacking in highs, the 128kps too harsh and the 320hkps sounded right - I reckon because the vast majority of my collection of music is ripped in 320kps and I'm 'used to it'.
Though I'm told by my mates who DJ on bigger sound rigs (PA's) that the difference is very noticeable between a lossy format (320kps mp3) and lossless formats (wav/flac) when they play. I havn't had a opportunity to test that yet - but when we had a few informal listening sessions, their ability to pick out detail & identify subtle differences in eq & lossless vs lossy formats makes me inclined to believe them...