No, I'm talking about very serious BLIND ABX listening tests with high quality equipment conducted by serious folks. I'm not talking about average joes happy with AM radio. And I'm not saying that no one can detect the difference between an mp3 128 and original source, just that it typically takes very good hearing and songs where potential artifacts are likely. These are not the typical case for most listening. If you really want to learn more about this sort of thing go over to hydrogenaudio.org and read the material on this issue and the many forum posts. But I'm getting the idea that you're not actually interested in learning anything that changes your initial beliefs and you're happy to accept the heuristics and biases that may color your beliefs. That's ok--to each their own. We're just listening to music, not curing cancer. And as I said, I personally prefer all my music in FLAC (lossless) if at possible (even streams if they were available)....but not because I think I can hear any difference (in my library of over 100,000 songs I've heard less than a dozen songs that were not transparent at 128).
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