In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator
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Who knew listening to a banana sounded so good?
  • tomalley8342@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    7 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.caEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

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