goodsound
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ok I was going to be little polite but here you go smartasses -
Your poll is flawed! Yes like it or not its a stupid idea. You have essentially eliminated all voters who would vote "yes" but don't have an ABX test to prove it.
As pointed out several times before in this thread (can you not read), whether someone hears a difference or not depends on the player, amp, headphones, speakers and the source material/recording (song/track) also, and not just the encoder/decoder. you simply cannot ignore that fact!!
So even if someone had an ABX result which proved one way or the other, its not valid. You can't accept the result, whatever it may be, as a global truth.
You could loosen it up a bit by asking instead that if anyone voted "yes" then what was the full reproduction chain ?
As far as I am concerned the lossy format has a flat dimensionless soundstage/image, the sound has much less body than the original, the low-mids sound a little bloated or slow. And this is on an ipod nano with KSC-75.
Would my results be different, for better or worse, if I was listening on a completely different device or amplifier or headphone or on speakers ? You bet!!
Your poll is flawed! Yes like it or not its a stupid idea. You have essentially eliminated all voters who would vote "yes" but don't have an ABX test to prove it.
As pointed out several times before in this thread (can you not read), whether someone hears a difference or not depends on the player, amp, headphones, speakers and the source material/recording (song/track) also, and not just the encoder/decoder. you simply cannot ignore that fact!!
So even if someone had an ABX result which proved one way or the other, its not valid. You can't accept the result, whatever it may be, as a global truth.
You could loosen it up a bit by asking instead that if anyone voted "yes" then what was the full reproduction chain ?
As far as I am concerned the lossy format has a flat dimensionless soundstage/image, the sound has much less body than the original, the low-mids sound a little bloated or slow. And this is on an ipod nano with KSC-75.
Would my results be different, for better or worse, if I was listening on a completely different device or amplifier or headphone or on speakers ? You bet!!