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JamGosBTC
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2025-02-22 22:25:36
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JamGosBTC on Nostr: I'll probably get ripped apart for this comment, but I'm not convinced that "wired is ...

I'll probably get ripped apart for this comment, but I'm not convinced that "wired is better" as a blanket statement is broadly true - the quality of the headphone likely plays a much larger role.

Back in the early aughts when MP3s became prevalent, some grad school colleagues and I were testing sound quality for different songs across different genres from lossless down to 56 kbps. We had to get a fair bit below 128 kbps to noticeably hear any loss for most songs. So I'm willing to bet that most people, in a double-blinded experiment, cannot identify wireless/wired better than 50% of the time (therefore they're guessing) for good quality headphones. If anyone knows of the results of a double-blinded experiment that proves me wrong I'll happily shut up. Otherwise one of these days I'll have to run the experiment myself.
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