Digital audio listening test

[Ingo Debus]

Colin Fraser wrote:
> 
> Here's a little quiz for you guys then...

The German computer mag c't (issue 3/2000) did some extensive tests
comparing MP3 and non-reduced digital audio. They had many expert
listeners as probands - high-end salespeople, audio professionals,
musicians. They used pretty expensive Hifi gear. *No* proband could say
which recording was MP3 in a blind test. Only after they knew, some
could tell some marginal faults in the reproduction. Younger probands
were better in this respect.

Of course, bitrates were 128 kBit/s or higher.

Ingo