Gizmodo: My Ears vs. Yours

[blackzarg]

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I'm curious as to why they used WAV over the compressed lossless formats, though.

[Stereodude]

The testing methodoly is a bit shaky. Using Foobar2000 with the ABX plugin would be a far more useful method to determine at what bitrate the files go transparent.

[etcarroll]

Of course its suspect, his excessively curly locks and porn mustache preclude his ability to detect the most minute nuance changes to the music.

[engtaz]

I agree with Stereodude.

[blackzarg]

I don't think using programs are the points though... it's just a subjective test of how human ears work. The correct answer would probably be "It depends who the listener is", but I think the author is just curious what the population (Gizmodo readers) that can tell the difference between lossless and MP3 bitrates with their own ears