[LAU] What is the best MP3 encoder?

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Tue Apr 2 14:16:42 UTC 2013


On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Felix Homann <linuxaudio at showlabor.de>wrote:

> 2013/4/2 Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>
>
>>
>> its a common woo belief that you can "train" the ear to hear these
>> differences and people who work in audio like to think they've done so. the
>> current understanding of the ability to hear the differences, however, is
>> not based on "training" but physiological abilities of the inner ear.
>> double blind tests of discrimination including self-classified "golden
>> ears" doesn't show them to substantively better than a random population
>> sample.
>>
>>
> That's very interesting. Can you, please, point me to a paper on this?
>

i knew someone was going to ask me for this. every time i (re)google the
stuff i found before on this, i seem to find different studies, and the old
ones are gone. i should keep/host the PDF's. i know that some of the papers
i've read have been hosted (but not done by) hydrogen audio. beyond that, i
would just google for "double blind mp3 test" and start reading.

sorry to not be able to point at "my sources"
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