[LAU] How bad is mp3/ogg

[Philipp Überbacher]

Excerpts from Fons Adriaensen's message of 2011-10-12 21:45:37 +0200:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:09:37PM +0200, Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday 12 October 2011 17.09.13 Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> > ...
> > > 
> > > Tonight I'm recording 5 violins made by Guadagnini (about 1 M Euro
> > > each), for a listening test about the violins. Could provide some
> > > interesting test material for an encoding ABX test...
> > 
> > Lucky you..  :-)
> 
> To make this clear, I don't get 1 M Euro for each one I record...
> :-(  It's just the insurance value of the instruments.
> 
> BTW, 'gaudagnini' means 'little gains' or 'little profits' :-)
> 
> I'll try to get permission to make some of this available
> for mp3/ogg testing.
> 
> Ciao,

If you go through with this, a good place to get additional listening
testers might be http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/. Yes, it's one of
those ugly web forums, but there's a reasonable amount of people who
have done this kind of listening tests before.

Regards,
Philipp