On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 13:54 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > 2013/4/3 Peder Hedlund <peder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > In view of the recent debate regarding the alledged "crappiness" of MP3 I > > thought it would be fun to see if the LAU society can tell lame (v3.99.4) > > MP3s from the original. > > > > Everyone is invited to download the testfiles from > > http://www.musikhuset.org/~peder/AxelF.zip , see if you can ABX them and > > post the result. > > There's one original WAV file and then 3 MP3s of various bitrates, which > > have all been converted back to WAV. > > > > The 165 MP3 was created using "-V4", the 124 "-V6" and the 108 "-V8 > > --resample 44.1" (since it wanted to make a 24 kHz file otherwise). > > > > - Peder > > Hi, > > trials 10 > > against 165: correct 5, p-value 0.623 > against 124: correct 7, p-value 0.172 > against 108: correct 9, p-value 0.011 > > side effects: back to the '80 and doing the moonwalk B-) Playing one file after the other using VLC -> Jack @ 48KHz -> HDSPe AIO phones out -> AKG K 240 DF I didn't notice a difference for the audio quality. _But_ the mix of the original wav for sure is nice for that kind of music, but it isn't a high quality audio recording useful for this test. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
