[pez]

No, I'm not talking about the equipment, just the difference in music formats. I was saying that, most people that can tell a difference, it's not a big one, and that's what I'm saying, that if you have to be stubborn and try and tell someone there ignorant for using mp3's, than your ignorant.

 

[doctorcilantro]

Not to get off topic but are pragmatic reasons for ripping lossless to an archive. I got 4 out of 10 after careful listening. So at home since I archive in lossless that's what I listen to; portable, it only makes sense to go with lossy for speed of conversion or speed of file transfer with copy if you have a synced lossy library with your lossless one.

DC

 

[Febs]

Quote:

Originally Posted by doctorcilantro /img/forum/go_quote.gif Not to get off topic but are pragmatic reasons for ripping lossless to an archive.

Absolutely true. But I think that it is off-topic for the purposes of this thread.

 

[Oya?]

EDIT: Sorry for old-ish bump. Ran into this from http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f4/los...25/index2.html. Got 14/20 on Live And Let Die.

 

[b0dhi]

Sadly the thread isn't being maintained by the OP anymore. I thought it was a very interesting test.

 

[tfarney]

Yeah, these things are kind of interesting, though I've taken them before and I know the results -- I can't reliably tell the difference between lossy files and lossless. If I ABX'd across enough trials of enough different files and listened hard enough, I'm sure I'd eventually run across passages I could identify as lossy, but I sure don't have any interest in that. I'd rather listen to music, and I know that when that's what I'm doing, I won't hear the difference. If I had better equipment, could I hear it, even when relaxing and enjoying the music? Maybe. But the other side of that is I can already hear bad mastering well enough that when it is bad enough, I find it hard to listen to. I'm not sure I want much better equipment!

I still rip everything to lossless, though. Hard drive space is cheap.

Tim

 

[taylorwilsdon]

No go but was using the integrated speakers on my laptop!

 

[myinitialsaredac]

I Just tried it, I got a 6/10 in test which was bad for me, in training i can pull 8/10 and 9/10 fairly consistently....darn psychoacoustics!

On Dave Mathews try 7-12 for the sample and pay attention to the cymbal/drumkick at about 11, in sample b its a little bit higher and in sample a its a little bit flat.

Good Luck!
Dave