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Can you tell the difference between 128, 320 mp3 or wav?


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yes, but it much depends on the type of music and recording.

 

acoustic music - strings and  percussion relatively easy to tell them apart.

electronic music - much more difficult

 

modern, heavily processed and volume compressed music - also difficult. In fact,  anything heavily volume compressed it becomes more difficult to differentiate, as you lose some of the ability to differentiate quieter detail and nuance, which is a large part of how you tell them apart. 

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Got 5 out of 6 right. I could hear the difference between 128kbps and WAV but there's not much in it. With 320kbps and WAV it was very difficult to pick. The WAV samples had a very slight bigger soundstage and cleaner top end. But again, very hard to pick.

For mobile devices 320 kbps is the go. For home CD quality or higher.

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Guest Eggcup The Daft
3 hours ago, LogicprObe said:

 

Didn't we do this before?

Yes. But this time I can't be bothered to search.

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I got 4/6 through my crappy computer speakers. The 2 incorrect picks were both 320k.
Found it fairly easy to determine the 128k file.. harder for the 320k and wav. Will have to give this a shot on the hifi.

 

Thanks for the link

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the 3 immutable laws of the internets...

 

poe

godwin

rule 34

 

:D

 

btw - got 2/2 only listened to the music i knew, on crappy little logitech speakers used with whatever soundcard thingy is in the computer.

 

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2 minutes ago, Saxon Hall said:


Yeah I know but I prefer him to that failed landscape painter with the funny moustache.

 

I'd forgotten about Godwin Grech until your post. I remembered the name but 'Utegate' had long disappeared from the memory.

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6 hours ago, Addicted to music said:

I got 1/6 out of an iPad speaker....:(:emot-bang:

 

 

But the whole aim of the compression exercise is to sound the same through an iPad speaker! No worries there...

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Guest Eggcup The Daft
20 hours ago, Saxon Hall said:

There better be a difference. Otherwise the world will spin off it's axis

The audiophile world spun off its access sometime early in 1976 and is currently in a parallel reality, so no worries there, either.

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