http://www.maximumpc.com/article/do_..._rates_pay_off
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We all thought it would be a piece of cake, for that matter. With the finest consumer-level soundcard, ace headphones, and tracks we knew by heart, who would have thought that identifying a compressed audio track could be so difficult? No one was more surprised than the audiophile. Like all the other participants, there was a lot of leaning forward, as if getting closer to the PC might expose some hidden flaw in the audio stream. Near the end of the tests, the Audiophile remarked, “I specifically chose this song because I thought it would be easy [to identify the compressed version]. It wasn’t.”
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