On 04/10/2014 12:42 AM, josephkk wrote:

Let's see, how to say this? So you believe like most audiophools that the
marketing swill in audio magazines is more reliable than actual properly
performed scientific tests? Have you ever tried managing over 10,000
tracks of music in any form?

BTW i use flac as a matter of personal choice, because it is lossless like
PKzip. Not that i can discern any difference even with my best equipment
between 256k mp3 and flac. I have done A vs B testing and honest enough
that for most of my material 256k/s mp3 is effectively distinguishable
from flac or wav.

Suck it up.

?-)

Have there been any scientific tests on the effects of listening
fatigue, over hours, from listening to PAC and SBR compressed files? It
is a real consideration as any broadcast engineer worth his Rohde and
Schwarz can tell you. I can listen to 128k MP3 all day long in the car
but once I get in a quiet place the same files sound like wire recordings.

Try listening to a viola bow on a moderate bitrate aac+ file, or the
breathy sounds of an isolated female vocal. On some material all the
shortcomings and mathematical anomalies manifest at once. Certain pure
tones can turn fool the decoder to produce "aliasing" artifacts for no
reason.

It is acknowledged that some of us hear better. I have not read a
magazine in years.