Info about Atrac3plus

[ben123]

http://www.minidisc.org/keep/ITS_test_report.pdf

[KJ_Palmer]

Interesting, so if I undersand correctly, ATRAC 3+ was the winner overall, and in particular 64k ATRAC3+ was preferred to 128k MP3 (in this test)? Personally, I'm not keen on high compression, so I would have been more interested a comparison of higher bitrates, eg. 192k and above...

[drmoze]

The most significant fact about these tests is that they were paid for by Sony "to verify the findings of Sony Corporation."

They seem to be fairly well set up, but there is likelihood of some bias there...

Still, A/B blind listening tests are better than comparing frequency graphs!