I can just see it in a scientific journal:
"Today a group of scientists have been using their chests to measure sound waves and have found that mp3 has an inferior bass response to wav files. Instead of playing the same music in a controlled environment they instead mixed several different songs, some of them wav and some mp3. They paid no attention to the fact that these are different songs, as they know that their chest is natures most accurate tool for measuring the amplitude of a sound wave."
Hilarious!
One of my favourite videos to show to stupid/ignorant people:
This shows that your brain can play tricks on you. But you guys probably know better then them, right?
A post by the same guy, Ethan Winer(who knows more than all of you idiots put together):
Lol!A few years ago, someone I know from a hi-fi type audio forum visited me. He insisted he can identify lossy compression every time, so I tested him blind in my home studio. He had brought with him a CD of a solo classical piano, so we used that as the source music. I extracted a Wave file from the CD, then created lossy versions at 128, 192, and 256 kbps. I played fragments one after the other while he listened and guessed which was which. Son of a gun, he got them all right! But then we did it again and he got them all exactly backwards, believing that the 128 kbps version was the original and the original was the 128 kbps copy. So he obviously couldn't hear the degradation, even at 128 kbps, and his first success was due simply to chance. This is not to say that 128 kbps always sounds the same as an original Wave file, because the loss is clearly audible on some types of music.
Now what I find really hard to grasp - how are some of you arguing about the invalidity of a null test? This is a test that shows the DIFFERENCES, nothing more. And if you try it, you'll see that it's higher frequency white noise and wide stereo content that gets lost, NOT BASS. It amazes me that people refuse to accept facts and instead rely on anecdotal information about how they once played a track in a club and didn't feel it in their chest as much!! There's so many variables in this, for a start as I've pointed out a dozen or so times YOU NEED TO PLAY THE SAME FUCKING SONG TO HEAR A DIFFERENCE. It's such a basic concept, I actually think I could teach it to a monkey.
