[vorbis] as if you haven't seen this yet

[Jared]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Monty wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:21:36PM -0500, dongoodman wrote:
> > i'm sure most of us are avid slashdot readers, but...
> > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/13/1558239&mode=nested
> 
> Aw fuck, they *would* slashdot *that* one.
> 
> I spoke to the reporter who did the 'listening tests'.  They were not
> controlled tests, they were not blind or double-blind (the listeners
> knew exactly which codecs they were listening to), and the reviewers,
> when they came in, already had opionions of which ones were best.
> 
> In other words, not a great authority on the subject.  It's going to
> take months to undo that damned article.

        I reckon those retentive enough to sit through tests like that and
make huge noises about degraded sound quality etc don't deserve good free
audio codecs.
J

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> Monty
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