Love how the majority of people cant notice the difference in audio quality 
Do 320kbps mp3 files really sound better? Take the test! - Audio and Sound … was fairly simple to me but most people got it wrong
I couldn’t tell the difference with those clips to be honest.
Me neither…
I’d rather have people noticing the difference and keeping audio standards high.
Most people can’t hear the difference because they don’t know what to look for.
0/3. Selling my DJ gear as of now 
Ok, few questions about this test.
- What format are those clips? Have they been recompressed several times?
- How are these being streamed? Does that have any effect on the audio quality? I can’t see any way to download it.
It doesn’t seem like a great test.
dont have a clue as I just stubbled across it… clicked the correct answer then seen many people got it wrong… theres a wav and mp3 test which most failed too but I found it fairly simple as i clicked to open in new links and came up .wav and .mp3 in the window
i got the mp3 one wrong, i swear the bass sounded bassier on the one i chose…
I did some blind listening tests years ago. The audience were mostly competitive dancers (people who listen to a LOT of music), the venue & system had been in place for years (familiar to everyone involved), and the music were “familiar favorites” of the audience (songs they had heard before, and probably owned).
I used several formats:
- Original CD
- mp3 @ 320
- mp3 @ 128
The mp3’s had been burned onto an audio CD. All the songs were played on the same equipment, etc, ad nasium.
The challenge was to correctly identify the source of 5 songs. The answers were WORSE than straight guessing should have produced!
After a couple times, I added a “I can’t tell” option and told them to only answer one of the other options if there were CERTAIN they could tell a difference. Removing the “cant’ tell” responses, the answers were almost exactly what would have been produced by guessing!
Meh, some already not really awesome quality 70s tune is not really useful for that test. I mean I have lots of my old 60s rock songs encoded in 196kBit/s, cause you won’t even hear a difference due to the record being “crap”-quality already when it came out. My EDM collection is proper 320 tho, as you clearly hear the difference there..
yeah theres a lot of times you could get a good quality 128 and a shit quality 320 so its hard to tell most of the time… with all these bedroom producers these days… mastering stages mean that quality doesnt sound too amazing at times..
Such a shitty test. I’d like to see this redone with some really nicely recorded classical music/chamber music with a large dynamic range.
I couldn’t tell the difference until I really focused on the vocals, and the second clip sounds a bit choppy witht eh vocals. But I found the clip to not be the best clip for comparing.
Something with heavier bass might have been better IMO
tbh i think this test validates my cheapskate decision to buy 192’s 
Why the hell does a 320 cost more than a 192. It makes absolutely no sense.
not only this, but who sells 192’s anymore? All I’ve seen is either 320 mp3, WAV, or 256 AAC.
OTish Just wondering, where do you guys like to buy your music?
juno still do, i think chemical do to…? and doesn’t beatport?
anywho, generally costs more cos of server space - bullshit reason, but there you go.
juno appeared to not like that i once set both mp3 formats and wav at 99p, as they changed them to more ‘standard’ prices..
use search dude, plenty of threads on that already, let’s not derail this topic with an exister.
pictures of tits? yes
mindless chatter? yes
emulator? you will die
existing topic in multiple threads? hell no
Oh fuck off, you’ve used more text with your little complaint than you would have adding side note to your previous post and it wasn’t going to “derail” the thread.
Either way I see no fucking problem with that. There’s nothing inherently wrong with slight deviations, it is how conversation and discussion tends to work. This thread is not going to be archived and referred to for some useful information so we don’t have to worry about polluting it. It’s a bunch of blokes having a chat about a crap 2 year old blog post purely for the sake of entertainment.