Hi all.
I want to perform an "listening test" with myself to conclude until what treshold of quality can I hear the diference between a lossy and a lossless
sample and ... So i'm thinking tho encode some samples to several qualities /
bitrates / formats and perform a testing with ABC/HR ....

Could anyone recomend me a set of 8 samples (for example) to encode
then and perform the testing....

Any help will be great great aprettiated...
Best reagards.

b:.

Good idea...



You can find the typical test samples on Hydrogen Audio in the "extra" folder:

http://static.hydrogenaudio.org/extra/

and also at ff123's website:

http://ff123.net/samples.html

But it's also a good idea to use more than these test samples for a valid decision which codec suits your needs the best, because you may prefer to listen to a certain kind of music (which you would also encode most of the time then) that sounds better or worse with a specific format and/or bitrate.

Furthermore you should not get trapped in hunting artifacts "from 32.2-32.5 seconds in blah.wav", but also consider the overall or general sound that the format produces over the whole track. Don't get me wrong, both parts of a listening test are important, but you should not emphasize one part over the other.