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Personal experience: most people can not differentiate anything above 128kbps mp3. Some can, but don't care. A lot of people listen to music in noisy environmen
by marcodiego 5y ago
Personal experience: most people can not differentiate anything above 128kbps mp3. Some can, but don't care. A lot of people listen to music in noisy environments with lower quality blue-tooth devices that decrease audio quality even more and make it way harder to differentiate from anything better than 128kbps mp3. Most current music is heavily dynamic compressed leaving very little space to differentiate better codecs. And the new generation of listeners is getting so used to compression artifacts that a cleaner sound may feel strange and unfamiliar.
- robbyt 5y agoWho are these people who can't hear the difference? And what sort of listen setup have you used to test this? Even my parents can hear the difference!
- marcodiego 5y agoFor a quick result: http://systmuwi.de/Pdf/Technical%20Reports/TechnicalReport_MP3.pdf http://systmuwi.de/Pdf/Technical%20Reports/TechnicalReport_M... page 16. And about people getting used to compression artifacts: https://web.archive.org/web/20090315092806/radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/the-sizzling-sound-of-music.html https://web.archive.org/web/20090315092806/radar.oreilly.com... and https://gizmodo.com/ipods-and-young-people-have-utterly-destroyed-music-5166649 https://gizmodo.com/ipods-and-young-people-have-utterly-dest...
- em500 5y agoThe German c't magazin did an extensive test back in 2000 using pricey audiophille equipment (Sennheiser Orpheus, B&W Nautilus 803). 256k MP3 was statistically tied with the Compact Disc source. Translated article: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=27324.0 https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=27324.0
- kevindong 5y agoIf I really strain myself, I can tell the difference between 128 and 320. But I never put that much effort into listening/appreciating music.