My Operamp3 & music and can you tell the difference between good and bad?
Monday, March 15, 2010 9:54:24 AM
I really love music. I have it everywhere and I tend to not leave the house without my phone with GB of music on it and I so spend hours listening to it every day. I use mp3 files since back in the 1990s. While the average quality started with 128kbit - which has been described as 'nearly CD-quality' - this has never been enough for me. I quickly switched to either 192kbit or ogg files (way better but due to incompatibility I had to focus on mp3
). After mp3 files became widely available online and the web speed increased daily, many people just turned away from CDs and bought mp3 player and files.
I just came across an article about the decrease of quality of hearing today and with it a test to hear the difference between the bad and the 'good' mp3 quality (128kbit compared to 320kbit). It looks like not even half of the people can tell, which is the better one. I tried, listened to each file twice and I ended being disappointed in myself because there is just one single second, where I could really tell, which testfile is the 320kbit one. Maybe it's due to my headphones. Maybe it's due to listening to online radio to much lately.
But test yourself: "Do 320kbps mp3 files really sound better? Take the test!"
Did you hear the difference? Did you pick the right one?
Picture taken from http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2009/03/mp3-sound-quality-test-128-320/
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