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Double-blind testing is unreliable for something like perceiving something temporal like audio. Unlike viewing a few images side by side where you have to look for the differences, with audio you cannot compare the input at the same time and, even more than with visual information processing, you have to ‘time travel’ back into the past to make a comparison. to do with what you heard before. Because nothing is as fleeting as audio, the moment you recognize it it is already gone. The new stimulus (the current audio track) also distracts you from retaining the previous stimulus in your auditory memory.
I can only say that I hear and especially feel the difference between lossy and lossless, namely in the dynamics. I have done such a test several times where you had to indicate: is this version 128 kbps, 320 kbps or lossless? On a tired Friday evening I scored poorly. On a rested Saturday morning, I not only scored almost everything right (and only made mistakes (320 kbps versus lossless) in a single song with fewer high-frequency instruments and less dynamics), but I also really felt the difference on the other songs. And yet it was irritating and very tiring to have to compare audio tracks for long periods of time for the reasons mentioned above.
I’ve had Apple Music since last year and since then I enjoy the music more than all the years I was with Spotify, and just as much as when I only listened to CDs. For me that is enough ‘proof’ to continue listening lossless.
[Reactie gewijzigd door Silvestris op 10 november 2023 00:25]
