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> No, I'm afraid it was nothing of the kind and extremely unscientific. I

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> certainly cannot discount the possibility that my brain bypassed my ears

> and fooled itself. What is interesting, however, is that I actually did

> *not* expect to see a difference between uncompressed audio and high

> bitrate ogg/mp3, based on experiments I had conducted several years ago,

> but did. I would really be interested in taking part in some kind of

> double blind testing some time and see what the outcome is.

I'm fully aware of the effect, a skeptic at heart, and I find that I

still fool myself all the time into thinking I hear differences when I

don't.  I wrote an ABX tool because *I* needed it to use for my own

testing.
You're on Linux, right?  Just grab and build Squishyball:
svn co http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/squishyball
it's a lightweight, standalone double-blind tester.  Hand it a few

comparison files, and off you go. It runs in a terminal.  It can run

in a few modes, the manpage details them.  It's useful for

non-rigorous testing too.
Monty

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