In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

muelltonne@feddit.org · 23 hours ago

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 hours ago

Yeah the enshittification did this IMO, we can serve 196kbps but chose to serve 128 or 96 so you really hear how shitty it sounds. Or pay extra!

Uncompressrd FLAC and other unnecessarily good recordings are useful when mixing, if I have understood it right, as it degrades quality. Otherwise I bet nobody can tell the difference between a 320 mp3 and a wave file. Guess 256 is all okay but why bother when the difference is so small?

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator