davvy
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Just came across this article on another forum and thought some of you might be interested.
http://www.geocities.com/altbinaries...l/mp3test.html
I would have done the test slightly differently myself, but it is by far the best attempt at a proper scientific blind trial of MP3 vs WAV on high end gear that I have seen.
To me the results basically lend support to the beliefs of those of us (myself included) who believe that high bitrate MP3s are basically indistinguishable from the original CD.
Unfortunately the authors don't state which encoder they used, but it is also likely that their 256k MP3s were in fact inferior to Lame encoded MP3s using the -alt presets (and still they couldn't tell a difference).
Anyway, interesting to hear some opinions on this.
http://www.geocities.com/altbinaries...l/mp3test.html
I would have done the test slightly differently myself, but it is by far the best attempt at a proper scientific blind trial of MP3 vs WAV on high end gear that I have seen.
To me the results basically lend support to the beliefs of those of us (myself included) who believe that high bitrate MP3s are basically indistinguishable from the original CD.
Unfortunately the authors don't state which encoder they used, but it is also likely that their 256k MP3s were in fact inferior to Lame encoded MP3s using the -alt presets (and still they couldn't tell a difference).
Anyway, interesting to hear some opinions on this.