ABC/HR Version 0.9b, 30 August 2002 Testname: 1R = D:\Temp\HQ test\[MP3 3.97a3 -V 3] Mahler [trans. Gottwald] - Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen.wav 2L = D:\Temp\HQ test\[aoTuV MGX -q 5,50] Mahler [trans. Gottwald] - Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen.wav 3L = D:\Temp\HQ test\[aoTuV MGX -q 6,00] Mahler [trans. Gottwald] - Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen.wav 4L = D:\Temp\HQ test\[aoTuV MGX -q 5,99] Mahler [trans. Gottwald] - Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen.wav 5L = D:\Temp\HQ test\[MPC SV7 1.14 -q 5] Mahler [trans. Gottwald] - Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen.wav 6L = D:\Temp\HQ test\[MP3 3.97a3 -V 2] Mahler [trans. Gottwald] - Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen.wav --------------------------------------- General Comments: --------------------------------------- 1R File: D:\Temp\HQ test\[MP3 3.97a3 -V 3] Mahler [trans. Gottwald] - Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen.wav 1R Rating: 2.5 1R Comment: beginning is distorted. Immediately perceptible. Some chirping between 4.9 - 8.7 --------------------------------------- 2L File: D:\Temp\HQ test\[aoTuV MGX -q 5,50] Mahler [trans. Gottwald] - Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen.wav 2L Rating: 3.0 2L Comment: distortions audible on 5.0 - 10.0 range ; fat chorus during 7.1 - 10.3 range, with chirping at the end: Vorbis < 6.00?! probably... --------------------------------------- 3L File: D:\Temp\HQ test\[aoTuV MGX -q 6,00] Mahler [trans. Gottwald] - Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen.wav 3L Rating: 4.0 3L Comment: could hear something like noise, or coarse vocal image. Very subtle. No chirping, or annoying distortions. So this on is probably the best (and according to my pronostics, it's probably Megamix -q6 or lame -V2). I'm just disappointed that none of all encoding reach fully transparency :-/ --------------------------------------- 4L File: D:\Temp\HQ test\[aoTuV MGX -q 5,99] Mahler [trans. Gottwald] - Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen.wav 4L Rating: 3.3 4L Comment: same comment as 2L, but some artifacts are lowered (not the fat sound problem, but chirping is [after long deliberation] slightly lowered. --------------------------------------- 5L File: D:\Temp\HQ test\[MPC SV7 1.14 -q 5] Mahler [trans. Gottwald] - Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen.wav 5L Rating: 2.8 5L Comment: slight distortions at the beginning. Annoying chirping on range 4.9 - 8.7. Weird... and sounds like artifacts heard with mpc at low bitrate ("washing-machine" sound) --------------------------------------- 6L File: D:\Temp\HQ test\[MP3 3.97a3 -V 2] Mahler [trans. Gottwald] - Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen.wav 6L Rating: 3.0 6L Comment: distortions at the beginning ; background is not perfect, like noise reduction. Sounds like lame preset medium/standard and Nero AAC 2620 and inferior version. --------------------------------------- ABX Results: Original vs D:\Temp\HQ test\[aoTuV MGX -q 6,00] Mahler [trans. Gottwald] - Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen.wav 7 out of 8, pval = 0.035