Public AAC Listening Test @ ~96 Kbps [July 2011].

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 24, 2011 @10:56AM from the listening-for-artifacts dept.

The folks at the Hydrogen Audio Forums have for years been benefiting the world with their patience, technical skills, and hyper-focus on sound quality, by comparing the real-world sound of various codecs and bit-rates for audio encoding. Under the scope for the latest public listening test (slated to run until July 27) are the following AAC encoders: Nero 1.5.4; Apple QuickTime 7.6.9 true VBR; Apple QuickTime 7.6.9 constrained VBR; Fraunhofer (Winamp 5.62); Coding Technologies (Winamp 5.61); and ffmpeg's AAC (low anchor).

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Re:FLAC by maeka · 2011-07-24 11:27 · Score: 5, Insightful

The difference between AAC/MP3 and FLAC (and CD player *) my hi-fi allows to hear quite clearly.

If you really can easily distinguish well-encoded AAC or MP3 from FLAC you should lend us at HA your golden ears!
I rather strongly suspect once subjected to rigorous double-blinding you might not come back speaking so boldly.