Posted by Steven Sullivan on 12/01/07 17:56

In rec.audio.tech Arny Krueger <arnyk@hotpop.com> wrote:
> "Jack" <jack@beanstalk.net> wrote in message
> news:Xns99F8DEE5D5EE6jack@216.168.3.44
> > "Arny Krueger" <arnyk@hotpop.com> wrote in
> > news:sMqdnY61IZu4ls3anZ2dnUVZ_oesnZ2d@comcast.com:
> >
> >> "Jack" <jack@beanstalk.net> wrote in message
> >> news:13kv43li2b63l90@corp.supernews.com
> >>> "Arny Krueger" <arnyk@hotpop.com> wrote in
> >>> news:NaidneXYer06NNPanZ2dnUVZ_umlnZ2d@comcast.com:
> >>>
> >>>> Where are the results of your DBTs?
> >>>>
> >>>> Anybody can write poetry. Real men can hear differences
> >>>> in blind tests, or admit they can't.
> >>>
> >>> Real men? If you listen to the WMA file you'll hear that
> >>> no blind tests are needed in this case.
> >>
> >> Jack, real men can read and obviously you can't. I
> >> posted the results of my blind tests with Steven's files
> >> on 11/28. That was two days ago. Where are yours?
> >>
> >> All I did is transform Stephen's coded files back into
> >> .wav files with standard software and compare those .wav
> >> files adn the original .wav file with some well-known
> >> free software that is pointed to by links at
> >> www.pcabx.com .
> >>
> >> BTW, blind tests comparing .wav files to coded files are
> >> slam-dunk easy. Please see www.pcabx.com and the
> >> Hydrogen Audio forums for more information.
> >
> > It looks like you're trying to market something that's
> > not pertinent to this example.

> How not pertinent?

> > Pomposity isn't much of a sales technique, either.

> I'm not selling a thing, just trying to shake you out of your intellectual
> slumber.

> >>> I already described in detail what the artifacts are.

> >> No Jack, you just posted some poetry.

> > Is your agenda to argue for the sake of argument?

> If you haven't noticed Jack, you're the only person reporting audible
> problems here, as far as I can see.

> > Listen to the files already.

> I listened to Steven's files already, Jack. Talk about being full of
> yourself!

> > Here they are, properly named now.

> > http://www.badongo.com/file/5372691 (Down By The River
> > 3:30-4:00 WAV)

> Broken link.


Badongo only hosts files for a day or two.


Jack's WMA codec seems to have issues.


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metaphor, narrative and, sometimes, claymation." - B. Mason

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