Anyone seen or taken this test before?
https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/how-well-can-you-hear-audio-quality
Its basically a blind test between uncompressed wavs and 320 kbps and 192 kbps mp3s for several songs. It also randomizes the order each time so you can take the test multiple times and not memorize the sequence. Just tried it at work on a MacBook air with a pair of crappy Bose noise cancelling headphones and was about 50/50 between the uncompressed and the 320kps. I never picked the 192 but some of them definitely felt like more of a guess to be completely honest. Pretty cool.
I'm going to try this on my home system as well to see if it makes it a little easier to hear the differences but I thought it was a really cool way of testing the fidelity of a system in a "double-blind" way and figured I'd share if you guys hadn't seen it before.
Doing an "ASR" version of this test wouldn't be too difficult and it would be super interesting to track the results over time.
https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/how-well-can-you-hear-audio-quality
Its basically a blind test between uncompressed wavs and 320 kbps and 192 kbps mp3s for several songs. It also randomizes the order each time so you can take the test multiple times and not memorize the sequence. Just tried it at work on a MacBook air with a pair of crappy Bose noise cancelling headphones and was about 50/50 between the uncompressed and the 320kps. I never picked the 192 but some of them definitely felt like more of a guess to be completely honest. Pretty cool.
I'm going to try this on my home system as well to see if it makes it a little easier to hear the differences but I thought it was a really cool way of testing the fidelity of a system in a "double-blind" way and figured I'd share if you guys hadn't seen it before.
Doing an "ASR" version of this test wouldn't be too difficult and it would be super interesting to track the results over time.
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