On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 09:07:33PM +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:57:38PM +0200, Atte Andr? Jensen wrote: > > > My question is: is this really a fair way to judge the artifacts > > introduced by encoding? > > No, it's completely invalid. > > The correct way would be a double blind A/B/X test between the > original and the encoded versions. With suitable hardware. What I mean is, I think a great way of demonstrating the difference between lossy compression and uncompressed audio is to do an A/B test through a consumer device and then do it in the studio. The difference can be striking. I like to think I have decent ears, and I can only very rarely tell the difference once over 192kbps. Though I've also found that bitrate isn't always everything (i.e some audio seems to respond better to a given compression algorithm than other). I wonder what other people's experience has been in that respect. Cheers, S.M. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
