11 Oct
2011
11 Oct
'11
11:34 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 09:07:33PM +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:57:38PM +0200, Atte Andr?
Jensen wrote:
With suitable hardware. What I mean is, I think
a great way of
demonstrating the difference between lossy compression and uncompressed
audio is to do an A/B test through a consumer device and then do it in the
studio. The difference can be striking.
I like to think I have decent ears, and I can only very rarely tell the
difference once over 192kbps. Though I've also found that bitrate isn't
always everything (i.e some audio seems to respond better to a given
compression algorithm than other). I wonder what other people's
experience has been in that respect.
Cheers,
S.M.
My question is: is this really a fair way to
judge the artifacts
introduced by encoding?
No, it's completely invalid.
The correct way would be a double blind A/B/X test between the
original and the encoded versions.