youtube vs actual 320kbps? I do those blind tests all the time with my non audio friends all the time and they can tell the difference every time.
Yes, you really can tell.
In a moving car though? Because 95% of the the car is moving!
Yes.
Road noise doesnt matter when there's an obvious difference in the sound, its apparent.
There is also differences in both that come into play. For instance one might be louder so you would have to eq the other so that the loudness was the same. I guess what I'm saying is only after measuring each and eq matching could we come to a real conclusion...
better test would be a flat EQ pure straight up source. Anyone can get anything to sound like anything with a proper DSP/EQ There's no point in that. Keep it simple, you play both songs, one clearly sounds superior in clarity, staging and lots more detail and musical information while the other one sounds lifeless, end of test. Nothing more needs to be discussed
yes it does... For instance audio encoded in DTS format is about +3DB louder than DD. Maybe youtube ha some weird glitch or process that enhances certain frequencies to make up for poorer audio devices such as laptop speakers or cellphone speakers
Youtube has specs of all video types being produced by the upload system.
Thanks you the man
there's a set bitrate that you can only achieve with youtube, Once you upload to youtube, you automatically lose a big majority of information due to youtube's audio transcoding. you'll never get actual 128kbps or higher from youtube sources basically. Thats why I was so adamant on how there's no competition whatsoever. Even on the music videos that say HD 1080, Compare it to an actual 320kbps version or lossless version, you'll hear a big difference. if it was actual 256kbps vs 320kbps then yeah, very minimal difference but when its much lower than that, you'll definitely hear it even for people with an untrained ear.
