The song is steaming by Sarah Maclachlan. Listen to her vocals 'In..'
MPC --standard 1.15 and 1.14 add a 'zzzz' artifact like a fly is stuck in your ear. Its annoying. --xtreme which sounds much better . Lame V2 -vbr-new sounds good but I still get a positive abx - a slight metallic artifact.
Suddenly I've become sensitive to vocals on many samples. The problem is that the originals don't really sound good and have 'defects' , but a lossy makes it sound worse.
abx logs:
foo_abx v1.2 report
foobar2000 v0.8.3
2005/12/21 23:09:08
File A: file://H:\temp\for archiving\new\lossless\Sarah McLachlan\Touch\06 - Sarah McLachlan - Steaming.wav
File B: file://H:\temp\transcoded\06 - Sarah McLachlan - Steaming.MPC (1.15)
23:09:40 : Test started.
23:10:18 : 01/01 50.0%
23:10:28 : 02/02 25.0%
23:10:56 : 03/03 12.5%
23:11:05 : 04/04 6.3%
23:11:34 : 05/05 3.1%
23:11:50 : 06/06 1.6%
23:12:00 : 07/07 0.8%
23:12:17 : 08/08 0.4%
23:12:38 : Test finished.
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Total: 8/8 (0.4%)
foo_abx v1.2 report
foobar2000 v0.8.3
2005/12/21 15:07:12
File A: file://H:\temp\for archiving\new\lossless\Sarah McLachlan\Touch\06 - Sarah McLachlan - Steaming.ape
File B: file://H:\temp\transcoded\06 - Sarah McLachlan - Steaming.MPC (1.14)
15:08:09 : Test started.
15:08:47 : 01/01 50.0%
15:08:51 : 01/02 75.0%
15:08:58 : 01/03 87.5%
15:09:07 : 02/04 68.8%
15:09:16 : 03/05 50.0%
15:09:21 : 04/06 34.4%
15:09:28 : 05/07 22.7%
15:09:35 : 06/08 14.5%
15:09:47 : 07/09 9.0%
15:09:52 : 08/10 5.5%
15:10:29 : 09/11 3.3%
15:10:39 : 10/12 1.9%
15:12:04 : 11/13 1.1%
15:12:12 : 12/14 0.6%
15:12:23 : 13/15 0.4%
15:13:44 : 14/16 0.2%
15:13:46 : Test finished.
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Total: 14/16 (0.2%)
foo_abx v1.2 report
foobar2000 v0.8.3
2005/12/21 15:18:47
File A: file://H:\temp\for archiving\new\lossless\Sarah McLachlan\Touch\06 - Sarah McLachlan - Steaming.ape
File B: file://H:\temp\transcoded\06 - Sarah McLachlan - Steaming.MPC (1.15 q6)
15:19:41 : Test started.
15:20:23 : 01/01 50.0%
15:21:06 : 01/02 75.0%
15:21:43 : 02/03 50.0%
15:22:14 : 03/04 31.3%
15:35:18 : 03/05 50.0%
15:35:25 : 04/06 34.4%
15:35:32 : 05/07 22.7%
15:35:45 : 06/08 14.5%
15:35:57 : 06/09 25.4%
15:36:08 : 06/10 37.7%
15:36:36 : 06/11 50.0%
15:36:46 : 07/12 38.7%
15:36:53 : 08/13 29.1%
15:37:01 : 09/14 21.2%
15:37:12 : 10/15 15.1%
15:37:36 : 10/16 22.7%
15:37:39 : Test finished.
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Total: 10/16 (22.7%)
foo_abx v1.2 report
foobar2000 v0.8.3
2005/12/21 23:35:17
File A: file://H:\temp\for archiving\new\lossless\Sarah McLachlan\Touch\06 - Sarah McLachlan - Steaming.wav
File B: file://H:\temp\transcoded\06 - Sarah McLachlan - Steaming.MP3 (V2-vbrn)
23:35:53 : Test started.
23:36:17 : 01/01 50.0%
23:36:49 : 02/02 25.0%
23:37:28 : 02/03 50.0%
23:37:43 : 03/04 31.3%
23:37:48 : 04/05 18.8%
23:37:56 : 05/06 10.9%
23:38:01 : 06/07 6.3%
23:38:06 : 07/08 3.5%
23:39:00 : 08/09 2.0%
23:39:14 : 08/10 5.5%
23:39:30 : 09/11 3.3%
23:39:49 : 09/12 7.3%
23:39:58 : 10/13 4.6%
23:40:28 : 11/14 2.9%
23:40:55 : 12/15 1.8%
23:41:43 : 13/16 1.1%
23:41:49 : Test finished.
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Total: 13/16 (1.1%)