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

[Jebus]

yes yes, but what is the point of that? Okay, MP3 "a" sounds different than MPC "b". This means.... nothing.

So why would such a test be performed in the first place? Because the tester wants to prove that one of the two tracks sounds better. But of course, as you said, this just proves that they are DIFFERENT, not which is closer to the original. Tester however concludes that this difference supports their preference. A preference they are entitled, to, I might add, but it doesn't prove much else.

Give me another example of why you'd ABX two lossy copies of a file. I can't think of one.

This post has been edited by Jebus: Jun 3 2005, 00:17