Alter3go
Established Member
...how there can be an audible difference between modern 320kbps variable MP3s (or whatever Spotify is using for "very high quality" these days) and lossless, FLAC, SACD, or anything else really. Now I know this has been talked about to death, and I have read some of the threads. And I know people have strong opinions about these things. But being the type of scientific person whose immersed himself in 1000s of research papers, I want to address the heart of this question, and that's why I made this thread:
Is there a single, competent, double-blind study, that demonstrates that human beings, even audio engineers and other related professionals, can actually make any of these distinctions? In short, I am not asking for your opinion at all (not that its invalid or anything), or how you view the science of audio and what conclusions you can draw (again, not that any of that is invalid). To satiate my own curiosity, I am asking what double-blind studies of this are on record, how sound the methodology is, the sample sizes used, and what the results were. In the threads I read, I saw studies that said that this distinction could not be made. I want to know if that there are any -large scale- studies that say anything to the contrary.
P.S. Please don't kill me. Thanks.
Is there a single, competent, double-blind study, that demonstrates that human beings, even audio engineers and other related professionals, can actually make any of these distinctions? In short, I am not asking for your opinion at all (not that its invalid or anything), or how you view the science of audio and what conclusions you can draw (again, not that any of that is invalid). To satiate my own curiosity, I am asking what double-blind studies of this are on record, how sound the methodology is, the sample sizes used, and what the results were. In the threads I read, I saw studies that said that this distinction could not be made. I want to know if that there are any -large scale- studies that say anything to the contrary.
P.S. Please don't kill me. Thanks.