19 Oct
2011
19 Oct
'11
9 p.m.
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 06:08:07PM -0400, Monty Montgomery wrote:
Thanks, I had heard
of it, but didn't realise it was a console app, so
thought it was inaccessible. As soon as I get this also-jack bridge
thing working, I'll give it a go and see what I discover.
Cheers,
S.M.
No, I'm
afraid it was nothing of the kind and extremely unscientific. I
certainly cannot discount the possibility that my brain bypassed my ears
and fooled itself. What is interesting, however, is that I actually did
*not* expect to see a difference between uncompressed audio and high
bitrate ogg/mp3, based on experiments I had conducted several years ago,
but did. I would really be interested in taking part in some kind of
double blind testing some time and see what the outcome is.
I'm fully aware of the effect, a skeptic at heart, and I find that I
still fool myself all the time into thinking I hear differences when I
don't. I wrote an ABX tool because *I* needed it to use for my own
testing.
You're on Linux, right? Just grab and build Squishyball: