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In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 2 points 6 hours ago

I noticed something similar with video. Like, if I am paying attention, the difference between the highest quality encoding and the next level is usually visible.

However, I have a harder time telling the difference if I don't do a side by side comparison.

And even when I can easily tell the difference, once I'm watching the thing, I get into the story and I don't care anyways.

Obviously a slightly different criteria compared to music, but people do make a big deal out of stuff that even they don't actually care about.