One test that would be easy to perform with SlimServer (and I think I will try it this weekend) is to compare different compression ratios starting with lossless going down to 128kbps. Simply take a song and rip it with the different schemes, put the different copies in a folder, each with a unique name, obviously. Then make a playlist with some number of copies, say 5, of each file and hit shuffle. Start with the largest difference in bit rates (for example, FLAC vs 128). Using the first song in the playlist as a reference, listen to each song, and record whether it was the same or different. Notice, I'm not saying to record whether it was better or worse, simply same or different. This is about the easiest test one can think of. If you get it right "significantly" more than 50% of the time, depending on the number of trials of course, then proceed to a closer comparison (FLAC vs 192), and so on, until you find your threshold.
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