marlowe;333098 Wrote: > I tried to see if I could tell MP3 (320) from FLAC - and to my surprise > I could and I couldn't. I listened to a sample of each - beeing able to > listen again from the start of the tracks, but not knowing which sample > was MP3/FLAC. I tried 4 different tracks, one of them twice with a > break in between. Every time I guessed wrong: What I thought was FLAC > was MP3. So I could tell the difference (I don't know statistics, but > getting 5 "rigtht" out of 5 is beyond pure chance, that much I do know) > but to my surprice I thought the MP3 had the better sound quality. I am > not sure I would think so after listened for more than a few seconds. > What made me think the MP3 was better, I think was, that it sounded > "firmer", less fussy - which perhaps makes sence - the fussiness or > some sort of "air" in the recording get's lost?So you picked mp3 as the > better? Now you are trying to figure out what you did wrong. Surely it can't be that mp3 sounded good. It's got to be that subconsciously you don't really like good sound quality and picked mp3. Yeah that's got to be it.
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