High bitrate MP3 vs. Lossless ABX Tests?, Are there any studies...? Options

[Street Samurai]

Hi All,

I've been corrected before on this site for making the statement: "I can tell the difference between an MP3 and lossless". I've never ABX'ed myself but I was wondering if there has been a statistically significant (with regard to population) ABX study done with (say) Lame insane vs. Lossless?

Clearly for myself it makes more sense to do a personal ABX but I was wondering in general about the population.

I searched manually through the posts in this forum (since search seems useless for the term 'mp3') and didn't see anything.

Thanks for help,

ss.

This post has been edited by Street Samurai: Jun 2 2005, 01:02

[legg]

Related to the first posts...
Without the intention to violate the AUP 8 with this assesment, I've heard artifacts using the onboard audio and onboard speakers of my laptop that were not audible using better equipment.

The same applies for the car, sometimes on the puter I can't hear some artifacts but on the car it is a different story, and some artifacts I hear on the car I can not perceive on the puter (I'm talking about the same file, but just decoded to CD-audio for play in the car).

I believe that the explanation behind this situation is that different equipment will create different masks, poor quality equipment might not have the fidelity needed at certain frequencies making a worse mask than that obtained with hi-fi equipment. Likewise, poor quality equipment might produce a higher mask within certain frequencies making some artifacts inaudible.

Just a thought thou.

This post has been edited by Luis G: Jun 2 2005, 23:23