Re: Sounded like Neal had a great idea until...
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He's wrong, it's the third one.
At least htat's my vote. :-P
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Wow, that's a good demo of the sampling Chris.
To me, only track 2 seemed not quite as full as the others, which (1, 3, and 4) were pretty well, no, not pretty well, but in fact entirely indistinguishable to me.
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I actually tried to make these worst case, so it'd be easiest to tell them apart. I'll make another challenge that's designed to be difficult this evening.
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Oh, and PM me if you do want the answer.
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I like that. We've got no consensus on which one is which, and you tell us this is the EASY one. Heh.
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Designed to be easy, from the track selection (those high pitched sounds should have been a give-away for poor compression), to the poor depth reduction. I really wanted to be able to hear the difference myself, but alas I couldn't.
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That was neat but listening to those made my ears ring.
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But which made your ear feel golden before the ringing?
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I pick 4 then 3 as the best. Man we are all over he map
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OK, the easy test is over. Time for the difficult one. This one is just about bit-depth, not lossy compression. These files are longer, I wanted a full reference of dynamic ranges, since that's supposed to be what 24-bit gains over 16. http://www.scuzzyeye.com/tests/track-b1.wavhttp://www.scuzzyeye.com/tests/track-b2.wavhttp://www.scuzzyeye.com/tests/track-b3.wavhttp://www.scuzzyeye.com/tests/track-b4.wavhttp://www.scuzzyeye.com/tests/track-b5.wavTwo of the files above are full 24-bit. The other three are dithered down to 16-bit with noise shaping. The 8 least significant bits are 0-filled so the files are all the same size. You challenge is to tell me which two files are 24-bit. Before you had a 25% chance of guessing right, now it's only 10%. But if 24-bit really is that large of an improvement it shouldn't be difficult.
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