[vorbis] applaud.wav sounds worse in 1.0?

[John Morton]

I've been running through a collection of hard to encode samples that the 
lame developers use, and others, doing ABX testing at various quality levels 
looking for my personal sweet spot. Last time I did this for RC3 I found that 
most samples where pretty transparent around the 3.5-4 region (my ears aren't 
that well trained, and I don't want them to be :-), but this time I noticed 
that applaud.wav[1] seems to have a lot of conspicuous static-like noise in 
it, all the way up to -q 6 or there abouts - I could ABX out to 5, before I 
gave up and went to bed.

I just compared RC3 output with 1.0 and I could easily spot that 1.0 was 
sounding worse at -q 4, and I could probably ABX the two at 5 or even 6 (RC3 
sounds pretty clear at both, to me).

What do other people think?

John

[1] http://lame.sourceforge.net/download/samples/applaud.wav

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