Public AAC listening test in progress
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different AAC constant-bitrate implementations at 128 kbit/s:
http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/test/
There is a thread started at hydrogenaudio.org here:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?s=5a25288c426af9206733a3fb77082e1f&act=ST&f=2&t=10107&st=0
and also one at slashdot.org here:
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/03/06/09/2249239.shtml?tid=141&tid=188
All interested listeners are invited to participate.
Darryl Miyaguchi
http://ff123.net/
ff123
>Roberto Amorim is currently conducting a public listening test of 5
>different AAC constant-bitrate implementations at 128 kbit/s:
>
>http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/test/
The larger goal of this test was to find the current best AAC
implementation to pit against other formats at 128 kbit/s.
The test is now closed and results are here:
http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/test/aac128test/results.html
ff123
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R J Carpenter
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As I read it, there were no samples with genuine orchestras of traditional
instruments.
Considering the test material, IMO the tests were essentially useless to the
wider public.
ff123
I suggest you listen to some of the samples before you issue blanket
statements such as the above. There are a variety of musical styles
represented, although full orchestra is not. Both male and female
vocals, and some acoustic instruments are represented.
Depending on your taste in music, the results may have more or less
applicability to you. But some types of lossy artifacting, such as
pre-echo (temporal distortion), are present in a large range of music
-- if this is the case, artifacting in one genre will have relevance
in many other genres.
You can find most, if not all of the samples here:
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