Ear training is more about hearing pitch, and here I think it’s probably a difference in timbre, and I think a major difference with the more standard flac vs mp3 version of this test is dynamic range. Music training would probably help a bit more with dynamics than this specific type of timbre distinction.
But the reason it’s salient is that “audiophiles” pretend that they can tell a difference and use fucking spectrographic analysis or whatever to point out “imperfections” in a sound file, but it’s all made up and the vast majority of them can’t really tell by listening. So it’s about contesting their claim, I guess.
Ear training is more about hearing pitch, and here I think it’s probably a difference in timbre, and I think a major difference with the more standard flac vs mp3 version of this test is dynamic range. Music training would probably help a bit more with dynamics than this specific type of timbre distinction.
But the reason it’s salient is that “audiophiles” pretend that they can tell a difference and use fucking spectrographic analysis or whatever to point out “imperfections” in a sound file, but it’s all made up and the vast majority of them can’t really tell by listening. So it’s about contesting their claim, I guess.