New blog post:
Can I hear a difference between MP3s and uncompressed audio?
http://82mhz.net/posts/2026/03/can-i-hear-a-difference-between-mp3s-and-uncompressed-audio/
New blog post:
Can I hear a difference between MP3s and uncompressed audio?
http://82mhz.net/posts/2026/03/can-i-hear-a-difference-between-mp3s-and-uncompressed-audio/
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.
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.