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In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud (www.tomshardware.com)
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[-] tomalley8342@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

But if you have high quality FLAC or Opus sources (or really high-end analog), you do not have to be an audiophile to tell the difference

The analysis showed that there was no statistically significant difference in quality between the un- compressed signals and AAC-LC 320 kbps compression, which means participants did not perceive difference between two formats

https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/whp/whp-pdf-files/WHP384.pdf

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Could be they were both shit lol. I couldnt see (on mobile) what playback system was used.

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