Just woke up & I noticed I made several times a typo, when I speak of 1.5.1 vs. 1.5.3 it is indeed 1.3.3 vs 1.5.3 ... sorry. It would have been obvious if I would have published the results as a table ... maybe I should have.
Edit: Well here are the four more interesting logs:
(to be short Nero 1.5.3 is not transparent for sure at up to 0.40. Artefacts are obvious, annoying & instantly ABXable. But it is not new as I had the same result with 1.3.3 in my old listening test.)
foo_abx 1.3.4 report
foobar2000 v0.9.6.9
2009/12/30 05:39:48
File A: C:\01- Disque C\03- Save\08- Audio Temp\01- Samples For Encoding Test\01- Listening Test\02- Nero AAC 1.5.3.0\04- Harlem\04- Harlem (Artefact Only) Lossless.flac
File B: C:\01- Disque C\03- Save\08- Audio Temp\01- Samples For Encoding Test\01- Listening Test\02- Nero AAC 1.5.3.0\04- Harlem\04- Harlem (Artefact Only) Nero AAC 1.5.3.0 Q0.35.mp4
05:39:48 : Test started.
05:39:58 : 01/01 50.0%
05:40:04 : 02/02 25.0%
05:40:10 : 03/03 12.5%
05:40:18 : 04/04 6.3%
05:40:26 : 05/05 3.1%
05:40:37 : 06/06 1.6%
05:40:45 : 07/07 0.8%
05:40:52 : 08/08 0.4%
05:40:53 : Test finished.
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Total: 8/8 (0.4%)
foo_abx 1.3.4 report
foobar2000 v0.9.6.9
2009/12/30 05:41:51
File A: C:\01- Disque C\03- Save\08- Audio Temp\01- Samples For Encoding Test\01- Listening Test\02- Nero AAC 1.5.3.0\04- Harlem\04- Harlem (Artefact Only) Lossless.flac
File B: C:\01- Disque C\03- Save\08- Audio Temp\01- Samples For Encoding Test\01- Listening Test\02- Nero AAC 1.5.3.0\04- Harlem\04- Harlem (Artefact Only) Nero AAC 1.5.3.0 Q0.40.mp4
05:41:51 : Test started.
05:41:59 : 01/01 50.0%
05:42:04 : 02/02 25.0%
05:42:11 : 03/03 12.5%
05:42:20 : 04/04 6.3%
05:42:27 : 05/05 3.1%
05:42:36 : 06/06 1.6%
05:42:47 : 07/07 0.8%
05:43:00 : 08/08 0.4%
05:43:01 : Test finished.
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Total: 8/8 (0.4%)
foo_abx 1.3.4 report
foobar2000 v0.9.6.9
2009/12/30 06:17:33
File A: C:\01- Disque C\03- Save\08- Audio Temp\01- Samples For Encoding Test\01- Listening Test\02- Nero AAC 1.5.3.0\02- Autechre\02- Autechre (Artefact Only) Lossless.flac
File B: C:\01- Disque C\03- Save\08- Audio Temp\01- Samples For Encoding Test\01- Listening Test\02- Nero AAC 1.5.3.0\02- Autechre\02- Autechre (Artefact Only) Nero AAC 1.5.3.0 Q0.35.mp4
06:17:33 : Test started.
06:17:48 : 01/01 50.0%
06:18:00 : 02/02 25.0%
06:18:10 : 03/03 12.5%
06:18:35 : 04/04 6.3%
06:18:53 : 05/05 3.1%
06:19:04 : 06/06 1.6%
06:19:23 : 07/07 0.8%
06:19:42 : 08/08 0.4%
06:19:47 : Test finished.
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Total: 8/8 (0.4%)
foo_abx 1.3.4 report
foobar2000 v0.9.6.9
2009/12/30 06:20:27
File A: C:\01- Disque C\03- Save\08- Audio Temp\01- Samples For Encoding Test\01- Listening Test\02- Nero AAC 1.5.3.0\02- Autechre\02- Autechre (Artefact Only) Lossless.flac
File B: C:\01- Disque C\03- Save\08- Audio Temp\01- Samples For Encoding Test\01- Listening Test\02- Nero AAC 1.5.3.0\02- Autechre\02- Autechre (Artefact Only) Nero AAC 1.5.3.0 Q0.40.mp4
06:20:27 : Test started.
06:20:42 : 01/01 50.0%
06:20:55 : 02/02 25.0%
06:21:38 : 03/03 12.5%
06:22:14 : 04/04 6.3%
06:23:32 : 05/05 3.1%
06:24:22 : 06/06 1.6%
06:25:20 : 07/07 0.8%
06:25:50 : 08/08 0.4%
06:25:52 : Test finished.
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Total: 8/8 (0.4%)
The same files are ok for me at 0.55 either with nero 1.3.3 or 1.5.3.