This list of selected comments is for humurous purposes only. It is not necessarily representative of the average thoughts given to each codec by the participants. These are the codecs, so that you can understand what each number before the .wav means: 1-MP3pro 2-Real Audio Gecko 3-WMA Std 4-FhG MP3 5-Lame MP3 6-HE AAC 7-LC AAC 8-Vorbis anon05: 6L File: .\Sample03\EnolaGay_8.wav 6L Rating: 2.8 6L Comment: It's that stupid codec that destroys the stereo effect! Over headphones, I hate it. Over speakers, I might not be so bothered. ---- anon05 on BigYellow: General Comments: [...] "near CD quality"?!? I wouldn't listen to any of them. Portable use? Give me a casssette walkman anyday! ---- anon06: 3R File: .\Sample01\BigYellow_4.wav 3R Rating: 1.0 3R Comment: well this sound like shit, even my grandma could tell that this is the 64 mp3 ---- pseudoacoustic: 7R File: .\Sample01\BigYellow_4.wav 7R Rating: 1.0 7R Comment: Utterly useless for encoding @ 64kbps. Wouldn't even consider it. Frequency-cutoff is very noticeable; muddiness, tinny and watery sounding throughout. Undoubtedly the worst sounding sample. ---- pseudoacoustic: 7L File: .\Sample03\EnolaGay_6.wav 7L Rating: 2.9 7L Comment: Nasty high-frequency noised in the beginning with the synth. Best way I can describe it is that it sounds like tinsel. Go down to walmart, buy some holiday tinsel, go home, open it up, and rustle it around. That's what it sounds like. Moderate frequency cutoff, aswell. Hi hats near the end sound surprisingly good (compared to the rest of the encoding). Probably due to the cutoff. ---- Lev: 4L File: .\Sample05\gone_8.wav 4L Rating: 1.2 4L Comment: In all my years at sea, I was never tattoo'd ... and never did I hear such a misrepresentation of a guitar strumming ---- Lev: 2L File: .\Sample04\experiencia_1.wav 2L Rating: 4.0 2L Comment: Strangely warbly BUT. INTERESTING NOTE: I would be very hard pushed to ABX on my Wharfdale Speakers, yet my Denons should up Warble straight off! sod Dibrom and his "Speakers make no odds cack" ---- tigre: 7R File: .\Sample07\mybloodrusts_4.wav 7R Rating: 1.3 7R Comment: 1st part: similar to 2, less annoying (1.5) 2nd part: lowpass, warbeling, watery sound, details smeared, all in all sound awfully changed (1) ---- anon18: 6R File: .\Sample07\mybloodrusts_3.wav 6R Rating: 1.0 6R Comment: Horrible sound quality. Painful frequency cutoff, cymbals are chirpy and very tinny and watery, drums have heavy pre-echo. I cannot hear most of the file due to such awful sound quality. Actual score would be appx. -4 ---- anon18: 6R File: .\Sample05\gone_4.wav 6R Rating: 1.0 6R Comment: 0.000001 seconds of listening (@ 9.5 sec onward) Eeeeewwww....... MP3 64. If you would like me to go into specifics: tinny, watery, pre-echo, muddy, INSANE frequency cutoff. ---- [proxima]: 6L File: .\Sample04\experiencia_4.wav 6L Rating: 1.0 6L Comment: Horrible, HF content absent ---- megar: 2L File: .\Sample01\BigYellow_7.wav 2L Rating: 1.2 2L Comment: Ugly, but there is uglier ! ---- megar: 7R File: .\Sample11\Scars_1.wav 7R Rating: 2.0 7R Comment: Some instruments are missing ! ---- anon20: 2R File: .\Sample08\NewYorkCity_8.wav 2R Rating: 1.3 2R Comment: Continuous obvious distortion. Colossal amounts of noise, particularly in the first half. Imaginative timbre in the second half. ---- Mac: 3L File: .\Sample01\BigYellow_4.wav 3L Rating: 1.0 3L Comment: Sounds like ass. ---- Mac: 3R File: .\Sample02\DaFunk_2.wav 3R Rating: 1.5 3R Comment: Uh? High snares smeared worse than a cheap hooker's makeup. ---- Mac: 4L File: .\Sample04\experiencia_2.wav 4L Rating: 1.0 4L Comment: Lol, who stole the drums? The very short percussion hits are all ... gone ?! ---- Mac (again!) 2R File: .\Sample07\mybloodrusts_1.wav 2R Rating: 1.0 2R Comment: Start guitars sound like someone is spraying my ears with a hose-pipe! ---- Guruboolez: 3L File: .\Sample02\DaFunk_8.wav 3L Rating: 3.0 3L Comment: pre-echo & irritating trebles : high-pitched instrument are filling-up with noise, ARE ONLY NOISE. Vorbis, for sure (this codec is always breaking the blindness of listening test, especially at this bitrate area). ---- Jon Ingram (on Gone): General Comments: not my top choice for an tune to listen to of an evening :)... ---- Garf: 4L File: .\Sample11\Scars_8.wav 4L Rating: 4.0 4L Comment: This nasty fucker has boosted HF's. I almost rated down the wrong file :-O ---- Garf: 2L File: .\Sample07\mybloodrusts_3.wav 2L Rating: 2.0 2L Comment: Lol, it removed the background noise. ---- garf: 3L File: .\Sample10\riteofspring_5.wav 3L Rating: 4.9 3L Comment: This is really a 5.0, but I am too big an ass to be that generous. ---- schnofler: 5R File: .\Sample02\DaFunk_2.wav 5R Rating: 1.6 5R Comment: Oh my god. This is just ridiculous. Where does this shuffle sound come from? It wasn't in the original. ---- Gecko: I would have just liked to pull most of them down to 1 and move on, but I restrained myself. It's like rating green from brown shit. Both stink. ---- phong: 6L File: .\Sample04\experiencia_2.wav 6L Rating: 1.0 6L Comment: Joke? Other than the vocals and the trumpets, it's almost unrecognizeable. Just a constant "swooshing" sound. ---- phong: 4R File: .\Sample07\mybloodrusts_1.wav 4R Rating: 1.0 4R Comment: It's the evil bee codec. An evil bee encoded this song. The beginning is an abomination. The rest sounds muddy and unclear. ---- radu: 1R File: .\Sample01\BigYellow_4.wav 1R Rating: 1.0 1R Comment: Eww...who farted?