Re: How bad is mp3/ogg

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On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 06:08:07PM -0400, Monty Montgomery wrote:
> > 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:
Thanks, I had heard of it, but didn't realise it was a console app, so
thought it was inaccessible. As soon as I get this also-jack bridge
thing working, I'll give it a go and see what I discover.

Cheers,
S.M.
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