2nd Multi-Format 128kbps Public Listening Test

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday May 13, 2004 @09:50AM from the music-to-one's-ears dept.

technology is sexy writes "Roberto Amorim has launched his latest public listening test evaluating the performance of different audio codecs at 128kbps, among them Apple's AAC implementation (used in iTunes), LAME, Ogg Vorbis fork auTuV, WMA, Musepack and even Sony's Atrac3 format, which is soon to be used in their own music store. Read more on Hydrogenaudio and check out the results of prior tests. As opposed to most evaluations of audio codecs, this is a scientific test adhering to ITU-R BS.1116-1 as much as possible while still allowing everybody to participate."

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Yes, but..... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-13 09:57 · Score: 0, Redundant

What about bitrates people actually use? I know every codec should be transparent for casual listeners if the bitrate is high enough, but I'd like to know what people with good equipment and golden ears think.