> No, I'm afraid it was nothing of the kind and extremely unscientific. I > certainly cannot discount the possibility that my brain bypassed my ears > and fooled itself. What is interesting, however, is that I actually did > *not* expect to see a difference between uncompressed audio and high > bitrate ogg/mp3, based on experiments I had conducted several years ago, > but did. I would really be interested in taking part in some kind of > double blind testing some time and see what the outcome is. I'm fully aware of the effect, a skeptic at heart, and I find that I still fool myself all the time into thinking I hear differences when I don't. I wrote an ABX tool because *I* needed it to use for my own testing. You're on Linux, right? Just grab and build Squishyball: svn co http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/squishyball it's a lightweight, standalone double-blind tester. Hand it a few comparison files, and off you go. It runs in a terminal. It can run in a few modes, the manpage details them. It's useful for non-rigorous testing too. Monty _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
