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silver_earson How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality? (2015)

That may be true for sources and amplifiers, but not for speakers/headphones.

Go to any audio store with speaker rows and listen to a few. They are hugely different, and none of them are cheap quality.

Which basically means that we are far from solving the accurate speaker problem.

silver_earson How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality? (2015)

Decoders are supposed to be bit for bit identical. It's the encoders which are different.

silver_earson How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality? (2015)

4/6, never picked 128kbps.

Used $50 Audio Technica ATH-M20X on $90 Behringer UMC202HD.

Did audio production in the past (amateur level).

Failed Coldplay, and Neil Young, the latter I argue has such poor source quality that it's hard to tell a difference.

Tip: listen to the "air" of you want to spot the difference, that's the first stuff the compressors throw away. "Air" is the ambient sound of the room, the tail of the reverb, the stuff you hear when you don't hear anything if that makes sense.