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Can you tell the difference between 128kbps and 320kbps? (pg. 3)
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| Kris G |
| I can't wait for the day compressed music dies and we are all back to listening to WAV-quality music via downloads. Storage and net speeds are ever increasing, but seeing how slowely the music industry moves sometimes... |
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| Project-K |
| Couldn't tell the difference - but I do have ty speakers right now and this sort of music isn't exactly the sound my ears are used to. |
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| Spartan |
I put in my senn hd's and had to listen a few times before I knew which one it was, and even then I couldn't tell by the voice. The instrumentals were the giveaway.
It was a tricky clip. |
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| distant |
| Couldn't tell the difference. I think it'd be easier to tell in dance music, as the hi-hats and such distort. |
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| Darkarbiter |
| quote: | Originally posted by distant
Couldn't tell the difference. I think it'd be easier to tell in dance music, as the hi-hats and such distort. |
And as they said the sound recording on the 128 was worse. Aren't they supposed to be the same thing? I find its easiest to hear low bitrate with pads/strings and really melodious stuff and such. As well as deep bass. Even if I can't tell the first time the difference(although here I was tired and listening on ty speakers)... it doesn't mean I don't enjoy the higher bitrate one more. |
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| Armitage |
| I got it right listening from my $50 headphones, but I had to listen a couple of times to be sure. |
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| THE_Chris |
| quote: | Originally posted by distant
Couldn't tell the difference. I think it'd be easier to tell in dance music, as the hi-hats and such distort. |
Plus the bass distorts somewhat and subtle rumbles are lost. Also, higher quality tracks sound noticeably fuller. |
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| palm |
| easy. should be more samples to show that i can do it everytime. |
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| skip |
i got it wrong with my not so good speakers that aren't positioned optimally for listening at the computer. my gf was also doing some stuff that makes noise while i listened. gotta try with headphones later on and concentrate really well.
i would have thought i'd hear the difference easily. guess not then. :clown:
and i agree with people saying, that there should be a site with lots of samples of different music and it should give you statistics afterwards. would be cool to know how much of a difference different compressions actually make. |
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| hkaliher |
yup thats too easy, like asking if you can tell the difference between bluray and dvd
ok maybe not that big, but still easy |
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| schlauf |
| Telling different bitrates apart also heavily depends on the encoder used. For example, ancient Xing MP3 encoder or even L3Enc by Fhg sounds sh*tty at any given bitrate, while the latest LAME builds make it really difficult, especially with electronic music. |
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