Public, Multiformat Listening Test @ 64 kbps (July 2007)

[menno]

For the people that are interested, here is the link to the new 64 kbps listening test that is being performed on HydrogenAudio right now: http://www.listening-tests.info/mf-64-1/

The contenders are WMA Professional 10, HE-AAC and Ogg Vorbis.

Discussion is here: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=56397

[skromnibog]

Hi all,

just to mention that the more accurate results on this test are, better quality of future Nero AAC Encoder you can expect. This is because results from listening tests are used to tune the encoder settings. So, please concentrate very hard when you perform the test. I don't have special hearing, but I can hear differences in these encodings and thus I believe that any of you with normal hearing can hear the differences. Thus please concentrate. At least you must be able to discover low anchor, but please try to grade all samples and all encoders.
And it is not important that Nero wins (though I would like it :)), only that there are as many as possible results and that you tried really hard to hear differences.

Cheers, Goran.

[Kurtnoise]

lol...the famous copy&paste effect. :D

btw, welcome to D9 forums. ;) Yet another ND developpers to help you guys...


back to the topic now. I just started this listing test and I hope that some other people from here will provide also some results.

[Kurtnoise]

Results are available now (http://www.listening-tests.info/mf-64-1/results.htm).

http://www.listening-tests.info/mf-64-1/resultsz.png

Nero and WMA Professional 10 are tied and WMA Professional 10 is tied to Vorbis. Vorbis however performed worse than Nero. Of course, High Anchor is best and Low Anchor loses.