Jeff Atwood's "Great MP3 Bitrate Experiment", From the Coding Horror blog. Options

[kinnerful]

http://lifehacker.com/5920793/the-great-mp...rate-experiment
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/t...experiment.html

I guess lifehacker has a larger audience than hydrogenaudio... could be interesting

[Canar]

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/c...experiment.html

Running T-Test and Analysis of Variance (it's in the spreadsheet) on the non-insane results, I can confirm that the 128kbps CBR sample is lower quality with an extremely high degree of statistical confidence. Beyond that, as you'd expect, nobody can hear the difference between a 320kbps CBR audio file and the CD. And the 192kbps VBR results have a barely statistically significant difference versus the raw CD audio at the 95% confidence level. I'm talking absolutely wafer thin here.

Seems pretty well-done. Thanks to Zao for the link.

This post has been edited by Canar: Jun 27 2012, 20:08

[greynol]

Beyond that, as you'd expect, nobody can hear the difference between a 320kbps CBR audio file and the CD.

I wouldn't necessarily have such an expectation considering there are members here who can (or at least claim to be able to) regularly ABX 320 CBR against lossless on normal music samples.

This post has been edited by greynol: Jun 27 2012, 22:29