Steve999
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Interesting.
Cognitive Daily: Few listeners can distinguish between "average" and "best" MP3 samples
Summary:
Their results: 64 kbps worse than 128 kbps, 128 kbps usually not distinguished from 256 kbps.
Audiophiles slightly better on testing than non-audiophiles.
The test metholodolgy is much-maligned in some quarters, because they did not use the original lossless samples in the testing, if I understand correctly. Thus, it's not true ABX testing.
Cognitive Daily: Few listeners can distinguish between "average" and "best" MP3 samples
Summary:
Their results: 64 kbps worse than 128 kbps, 128 kbps usually not distinguished from 256 kbps.
Audiophiles slightly better on testing than non-audiophiles.
The test metholodolgy is much-maligned in some quarters, because they did not use the original lossless samples in the testing, if I understand correctly. Thus, it's not true ABX testing.