[webcast-l] Most people cannot tell the difference between MP3 and lossless recording formats

[Bill Best]

Everyone knows that lossless codecs like FLAC produce better sounding
music than lossy codecs like MP3 - well that's the theory anyway.

The reality, however, is that most of us can't tell the difference
between MP3 and FLAC.

In following quick and dirty test, a significant number of subjects
rated the MP3 encodings higher than the FLAC files. Very interesting,
if slightly disturbing reading:

http://www.trustedreviews.com/mp3/review/2009/11/18/Sounds-Good-To-Me/p1

Bill Best
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Technical Manager
Community Media Association
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