[LAU] ABX test invite

Peder Hedlund peder at musikhuset.org
Wed Apr 3 12:29:37 UTC 2013


Quoting Raffaele Morelli <raffaele.morelli at gmail.com>:
> 2013/4/3 Peder Hedlund <peder at musikhuset.org>:
>> In view of the recent debate regarding the alledged "crappiness" of MP3 I
>> thought it would be fun to see if the LAU society can tell lame (v3.99.4)
>> MP3s from the original.

> trials 10
> against 165: correct 5, p-value 0.623
> against 124: correct 7, p-value 0.172
> against 108: correct 9, p-value 0.011

Nice. So now we know that your transparency threshold is probably  
somewhere around -V5.

If you feel like it you could try encoding the original to Opus and/or  
Vorbis and see if you'll do worse (since they're supposed to be better  
formats I doubt you'll do better :)

> side effects: back to the '80 and doing the moonwalk B-)

Sorry 'bout that :D

- Peder


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