Rick Beato mentioned that his teenaged son is able to hear AI-generated music with 100% accuracy. I (dude in his late 50s) can’t do the same. It’s weird because I write software synthesis applications and I’ve always been able to tell (with 100% accuracy) the difference between compressed and uncompressed audio (even when it’s “lossless” compression), but whatever it is that kids are hearing with AI, it’s not that.
Or he does what most audiophiles do and look at the label/bitrate/price tag and say “Hmm, yes, that is of far higher quality”. Not saying that differences don’t exist, but I’ve noticed audio tends to be especially rife with people who claim to be able to hear differences where they should not be humanly perceptible and will fail blind tests time and time again.
Rick Beato mentioned that his teenaged son is able to hear AI-generated music with 100% accuracy. I (dude in his late 50s) can’t do the same. It’s weird because I write software synthesis applications and I’ve always been able to tell (with 100% accuracy) the difference between compressed and uncompressed audio (even when it’s “lossless” compression), but whatever it is that kids are hearing with AI, it’s not that.
Excuse me good sir, are you saying you can tell FLAC and WAV apart?
???
The data coming out of your DAC is identical with lossless compression
Maybe their computer just lags hard enough to skip samples whenever decompressing.
Or he does what most audiophiles do and look at the label/bitrate/price tag and say “Hmm, yes, that is of far higher quality”. Not saying that differences don’t exist, but I’ve noticed audio tends to be especially rife with people who claim to be able to hear differences where they should not be humanly perceptible and will fail blind tests time and time again.
I’m calling bullshit on compressed audio claim. They produce the same sound by definition
I can read the difference between a pure uncompressed .txt file, and a nasty compressed .txt file that was inside a (yuck!) .zip folder