Quoting Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
I guess I _never_ failed a blind test, but that's not important.
If that's true you really should offer your ears to the codec creators. They want people with golden ears who can hear if their tweeks are for the better or worse.
And feel free to post your ABX score of the files in http://www.musikhuset.org/~peder/AxelF.zip . AxelF.wav is the CD original, AxelFMP3-165.wav is made with lame-3.99.4 -V4, resulting in an 165.2 kbps file, and AxelFMP3-124.wav is made with -V6, resulting in an 124 kbps file Compare the original with the 124 and see if you can tell which is which. Assuming you can, do the same with the original and the 165.
Or you can send me a 10s snippet of your favorite music and I'll make MP3s of that for ABX:ing.
Most people are comfortable with MP3s, but if I talk to them and point them to the lossy parts, they're able to notice the loss too, they are usually not annoyed by the loss.
That's very likely "the power of suggestion". Do try and point out the "lossy" part while they're listening to the original. It wouldn't surprise me if they started noticing the "loss" in that all of a sudden.
Back to audio ;), if you aren't accustomed to MP3s, but accustomed to listen to productions in good audio studios, than you can't stand MP3s.
Which might very well be because you know that it's an MP3 and you "know" MP3s sound bad.
Please do show that you can't stand MP3s by providing an ABX score. - Peder _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
