pippin wrote: > I remember very well to have participated in a listening test 13 years > ago in which nobody was able to tell apart 256 Kbps mp3 from a raw CD > signal. I still have the demo files and on my current setup I _am_ able > to tell apart at least some of the tracks - admittedly that doesn't mean > I will then know which one is mp3 and which one is raw, but that, again, > is a different story. > But maybe my ears simply got worse over the years to a point where it's > now easier to tell mp3 from the original music.
Quite possible - as we know, certain hearing loss patterns prevents the normal masking effects. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101924 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
