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4/6. I could definitely tell which was the 128/320/WAV for the 4 I got right, but on the Katy Perry and Neil Young, all 3 were indistinguishable to me. But sti
by squeaky-clean 11y ago
4/6. I could definitely tell which was the 128/320/WAV for the 4 I got right, but on the Katy Perry and Neil Young, all 3 were indistinguishable to me.
But still, this is when comparing small sections of songs directly to one another, and being explicitly told there are quality differences. The 128 didn't sound bad, there's just some difference in transients and high frequency content (the hi-hats on the Jay Z track were an immediate giveaway for me).
Maybe a better test would be only having one audio track per song (instead of 3) and having to choose if it is 128/320/WAV. I wonder if anyone could distinguish the difference there reliably.
I've gotten a new phone 3 times in the past year (I'm clumsy...), and each time, I go a month or two with Spotify set to the default quality instead of "Extreme Quality", and I never notice until I listen to an album I know extremely well. WAV is great, but mp3 is still pretty good, even at 128kbps.