Re: [LAU] ABX test invite

On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 09:24 +0200, Felix Homann wrote: I'll try to make music this weekend, so I'll stop this discussion. The people who claimed that they usually won't hear a difference hear differences and while I claimed that I usually hear differences I didn't heard a difference, but I didn't make a ABX test, I listened one time to all the files that are just a few seconds long and I never heard the song Axel F. from the beginning to the end in my whole life. 10 seconds might be enough, if I would hear a song that I heard several times in my life. Again and again and again, that MP3 is good enough for my taste to preserve a few seconds of Axel F., is evidence for nothing. ABX tests should be made with transparent recordings of a 40 instrument orchestra or similar. I don't say that Axel F. is bad music, bad I say it's very simple synth music, were not that much can go wrong by a little bit of loss. Even for simple 80s pop mainstream music there are much more complex recordings available, that for sure are more sensitive to loss. E.g. Bill Laswell did produce not only Avantgarde music, but also 80s mainstream. Faltermeyer's music is background music for a film that was made for mind candy. It's absolutely ok, we don't need to watch and listen to highbrow art all the times, but this mind candy stuff is not god for tests. Regards, Ralf