Can I hear a difference between MP3s and uncompressed audio? - 82MHz

@82mhz

I tried this for myself a while back… I think it'll depend a lot too on your specific hardware. Sounds like yours is better than mine. And the genre of music; with classical, for example, better hardware can help you better distinguish the different instruments from each other.

Cool A/B player, though! I had just listened back to back.

@amin
The player is great! I'm so glad people are making cool stuff like this.

Classical music is notoriously difficult audio because of its huge dynamic range. I don't have any classical recordings that I could have tested, but this and a pure vocal is for sure the most challenging task for a compression algorithm.

@82mhz

Hm, maybe I should test this on The Manhattan Transfer's "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square". Stunningly beautiful four-part harmony with no accompaniment.

@amin Never heard of that before, but please do and let me know!