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post #46 of 48
2/26/13 at 8:49pm
Well I was wrong. The two nearly identical in my tests and while I could tell one from the other with slightly more regularity than random guessing, I chose the lower quality as the better. That's enough to convince me that flac isn't really necessary
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post #47 of 48
2/27/13 at 3:28am
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Hey guys. Sorry, I haven't had much time to do more testing with these files. I'd like to try to keep this thread going in the future though. Chewy, if at some point I sent you a song in lossless would you be willing to convert it into the two files for the test? I think there are better song choices that would lend themselves better to this kind of test. And I don't think it would hurt to keep testing and encouraging more people to take part.

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post #48 of 48
2/27/13 at 5:17am
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Originally Posted by devhen View Post

Hey guys. Sorry, I haven't had much time to do more testing with these files. I'd like to try to keep this thread going in the future though. Chewy, if at some point I sent you a song in lossless would you be willing to convert it into the two files for the test? I think there are better song choices that would lend themselves better to this kind of test. And I don't think it would hurt to keep testing and encouraging more people to take part.

Yeah I could do that. I chose this particular song because something from this album was requested. Everyone's got a different opinion on what is a better type of file for testing. In reality it's just stuff with loads of complex high frequency content.

 

There are also a few other files I have already posted in the links of my signature. The top one includes an all acoustic bluegrass song as well as a song with just acoustic guitar(top and bottom songs). The bottom link doesn't have the source file posted atm(EDIT: now it is) but it contains both acoustic stuff, electronic stuff, and a good deal of high frequency content. I'll post the source later so people can compare that as well(the purpose of the topic is to compare lossy versus transcoded lossy though).


Edited by chewy4 - 2/27/13 at 4:20pm
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