Digital audio listening test

[KA4HJH]

>    I did something like this.  I used Stravinskys Firebird suite from the
>Telarc recording.  Nobody was able to get them all correct.  I also asked that
>they say which one sounded the best.  Most people picked the MP3
>versions....One
>of these people had about 10K worth of equipment (Tube amps, electrostatic
>speakers, real big suckers), even he could not pick the correct ones.

Here's a 128k torture test I found. Encode the instrumental opening of
CCR's "Fortunate Son" (the one they ripped off for a Wrangler Jeans
commercial recently). For some reason this drives every 128k encoder I've
tried batty. It simply sounds like crap. Sound weird imaging going on near
the center. Significantly higher rates work like a charm.


-- 
Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"