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Default SACD vs CD vs vinyl; was: Any impressions...

"isw" wrote in message

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Sonnova wrote:

Depends on the music. I can always tell an MP3 on
classical, but a well-made MP3 can fool me on pop stuff.


If you actually can reliably tell the MP3 from the AIFF
it came from, the person who did the encoding chose too
low a bitrate. Or the encoder used was not a good
implementation.


Or it wasn't a good listening test. I can tell the difference between any
MP3 and any WAV file if the comparison is:

Not level-matched
Not time-synched
Not dealing with listener bia