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ultra_prescriptivist t1_irdr80o wrote

Reply to comment by RB181 in It's happened. And now I can't go back by Solypsist_27

That's true, but that's not what you said before.

Your previous comment said

>and doesn't accurately reflect what the user listens to

Implying that a lack of familiarity with the tracks being tested might have a significant effect.

FWIW though, I would agree that the best way to ABX is to do your own conversion from lossless to lossy locally and use an offline ABX tool.

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RB181 t1_irdrx87 wrote

> Implying that a lack of familiarity with the tracks being tested might have a significant effect.

I never said that this was false, because it is also true. You know that feeling when you notice a detail in a song that you had never noticed before, even though you've listened to the song many times? Maybe that detail sounds better when it's lossless.

> FWIW though, I would agree that the best way to ABX is to do your own conversion from lossless to lossy locally and use an offline ABX tool.

This I agree, and with this method (using mostly /r/symphonicmetal which I normally listen to) I get consistently better results than the pre-made tests.

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