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>Neither is perceptively different (by humans) from a CD, even with the best equipment.

There are certain trouble files that can't be encoded well with MP3 even at 320k. I once successfully ABXY tested one such file 20 times in a row.




These kind of examples are always encoder specific, and even encoder setting specific. They are never general rules.


You're probably right to a large degree, but this page has people saying the file is distinguishable with multiple different audio formats even:

https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=120193.0


I have yet to find the encoder that encodes The Downward Spiral good enough where I can't AB test it from the CD. The album is neigh unlistenable on Youtube.

That particular disc seems to have been made at the cross roads time during which seamless natural-sounding digital effects were possible in music, but were still blocky enough in implementation to cause some type of Moire effect with digital encoders.




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