In Reply to: College Students choose MP3 Sound Quality posted by Tuckers on March 9, 2009 at 11:25:03:
I remember a test a few years which had quite a few "golden ears" (including some recording engineers) judging MP3 files to be "superior" to their uncompressed counterparts.
Our ears seem to be easily fooled into thinking "different" = "better."
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Follow Ups
- Unfortunately not just college students - Christine Tham 03/9/0913:33:55 03/9/09 (19)
- MP3 encoding can improve some recordings but the power switch does a better job. - Tony Lauck 21:10:47 03/9/09 (18)
- Applying MP3 to dynamically compressed recordings - Christine Tham 22:18:41 03/9/09 (14)
- RE: Applying MP3 to dynamically compressed recordings - Tony Lauck 08:20:18 03/10/09 (13)
- RE: Applying MP3 to dynamically compressed recordings - Christine Tham 17:04:23 03/10/09 (12)
- RE: Applying MP3 to dynamically compressed recordings - Tony Lauck 18:39:57 03/10/09 (11)
- Compressing classical recordings - Christine Tham 20:05:17 03/10/09 (10)
- Compressing Classical Music is a Bad Idea. - Tony Lauck 21:06:05 03/10/09 (9)
- Some more examples (non piano) from 2006-2007 - Christine Tham 23:43:59 03/10/09 (3)
- RE: Some more examples (non piano) from 2006-2007 - Tony Lauck 08:04:42 03/11/09 (2)
- Just to clarify - Christine Tham 15:01:54 03/12/09 (1)
- RE: Just to clarify - Tony Lauck 17:43:19 03/12/09 (0)
- For reference, from a few acoustic piano recordings I did late last year - Christine Tham 22:18:22 03/10/09 (0)
- RE: Compressing Classical Music is a Bad Idea. - Christine Tham 21:54:54 03/10/09 (3)
- RE: Compressing Classical Music is a Bad Idea. - Tony Lauck 08:25:00 03/11/09 (2)
- RE: Compressing Classical Music is a Bad Idea. - Christine Tham 15:08:35 03/12/09 (1)
- RE: Compressing Classical Music is a Bad Idea. - Tony Lauck 18:36:28 03/12/09 (0)
- Tony great points and I agree - Teresa 21:46:12 03/9/09 (2)
- RE: Tony great points and I agree - Tony Lauck 07:28:45 03/10/09 (1)
- Tony thanks for your insights and suggestions (;-) nt - Teresa 17:43:25 03/11/09 (0)