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...e results of the listening test!<br>'''This test has finished. Go to the [[Listening Tests]] page for the links to HA Forum's thread and complete result page.''
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...nish the placebo effect is by performing a '''[[blind test|blind listening test]]''', e.g. using the [[ABX]] method.
[[Category:Listening Tests]]
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Here are some practical tips to organizing a listening test.
==Test Collection==
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In summary, a '''blind test''' is needed to prevent what is known as the [[placebo effect]] when trying
...first introduced in medicine, in order to determine the effect of drugs on test subjects without coloring the results with subjective responses from both t
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...e into such low [[bitrate]]s. However, as can be seen in various 128kbit/s listening tests (see below), despite the fact that MPC has been optimized little for
== Listening test involving MPC ==
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...test sample to allow others to reproduce their findings. Graphs, non-blind listening tests, waveform difference comparisons, and so on, are not acceptable means
A test of audio quality is ''scientific'' only if it is [[Blind test|blind]]. This eliminates the effects of pre-existing opinions, the placebo
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...cal analysis is often useful, but only when used together with a listening test. The most useful view is the sound spectra view (spectral view in [[Adobe A
# Blind listening testing ([[ABX]]) is the only method that can really be justified when test
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The '''ABX Comparator''' allows users to perform a double-blind listening test between two tracks.
* [http://www.head-fi.org/threads/setting-up-an-abx-test-simple-guide-to-ripping-tagging-transcoding.655879/#post-9268096 Setting up
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...ciples]] over the years is by organizing and participating in public blind listening tests of lossy codecs and presenting statistical analyses of the results. T
[[Private Listening Tests|Private listening tests]] also provide useful data, but the public HydrogenAudio tests are a
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...://lame.sourceforge.net/quality.php Lame MP3 Encoder Quality and Listening Test Information web page]).
[[Category:Listening Tests]]
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...ed to constitute [[transparency]]). As part of a well-designed [[listening test]], useful quality comparison can be made between a selection of encoders pl
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...is very difficult to quantify the quality of an encoder, [[Listening Tests|listening tests]] are used.
...al listeners concluded that [[iTunes]] (the only AAC codec included in the test) was better than other codecs - even VBR-enabled ones.
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...test|blind]]", or without the listener's knowledge of what the file-under-test is. Another key feature is that the influence of chance on the results can
...on techniques, 3rd ed.'' [1] by Meilgaard, Civille, and Carr, this type of test is referred to as a "duo-trio," but the procedure is the inverse of the abx
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;Why do you stress blind listening / [[ABX]] tests so much?
;What is an ABX blind test?
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...//d.hatena.ne.jp/kamedo2/20120729/1343545890 FFmpeg AAC encoders listening test] (in Japanese) includes libvo-aac
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...eference wave file, one can use for example: ''eaqual -fref ref.wav -ftest test.wav''.
== Comparison with subjective listening tests ==
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*<s> rjamorim conduced a listening test</s> featuring ATRAC3 at 132kbps.
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...music. Since quantization error isn’t audible in any real music at useable listening levels, whether dither must be used is more a matter of doctrine than funct
...that can be discriminated in [[TOS 8|scientifically reproducible]] [[Blind test|blind testing]].
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...oustic source here. It does not appear to move if we move ourselves in the listening area, like the phantom acoustic source between conventional loudspeakers do
...f the listener. Because of the otherwise almost perfect rendition with the test setups, it seems to become more audible than using conventional loudspeaker
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...hydrogenaudio members have from time to time carried out their own private listening tests. Though individual perception of different kinds of artifacts varies
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