NPR has set up a test online: can you distinguish between 128kbps and 320kbps MP3 files, and uncompressed WAV files? I got all but one of my answers right (on my cheap Urbanears Tanto headphones), but I found them consciously impossible to tell apart and went with hunches.
Can you tell the difference between MP3 and WAV?
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