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Originally Posted by toretorden
When testing yourself, you have to know :
1. What are you after? You wanna be able to identify the higher quality file.
2. Your own weaknesses/error/bias as a human being. That's what blind tests are for, removing that error.
Sitting down listening to two files knowing the BR of both is likely not a reliable way to test this.
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I just wanted to say that the difference is identifiable, but when you are listening to a song on the laptop speakers or on the iPod earphones the sound quality won't be as good as listening to that same song on quality audiophile speakers. So if you're listening to a song of 256 kbps bit rate or an uncompressed Audio CD of 44 100 kbps on that same laptop speaker, you will hardly notice the difference.
Studies on several people (using mostly the blind test) have showed that a file compressed to less than 256 kbps is mostly noticed. It's not the case of every person, it depends on how sensible your ears are, and how much you trained your hearing.