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Hello! I found a sample I can ABX successfully when encoded at 133.333 kbps. I was targetting 1 MB/min. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8KWShoIrA1kQzR1Z0FFRUlfcEU floex.wav is 4:54–5:04 of a lossless copy of 'Forget-me-not' by Floex, downloaded from http://store.floex.cz/album/zorya floex-133.opus was created with `opusenc --bitrate 133.333333 floex.wav floex-133.opus`, opus-tools 0.1.9 (using libopus 1.1.4). I used a Sony MDR-V6 pair of headphones and m...

>>> Agustín Dall'Alba <agustin at dallalba.com.ar> schrieb am 14.04.2017 um 22:53 in Nachricht <CAHBqS-w3v44WM5x+_4XdFMkD42A2iYTbEWKEBmvJc2P3Y-LJGA at mail.gmail.com>: > I halved the volume of the sample before encoding with > `sox -v 0.5 floex.wav quiet.wav` and now I can't ABX it succesfully anymore. > So the artifact I heard was just clipping when encoding or decoding. Hi! Somewhere I read the recommendation that the peak level of input material shopuld not be 0dB, but something like -3dB. The reasoning was that encoding recon...

I halved the volume of the sample before encoding with `sox -v 0.5 floex.wav quiet.wav` and now I can't ABX it succesfully anymore. So the artifact I heard was just clipping when encoding or decoding. Opus remains unbeaten for me at 133 kbps. That's totally awesome. Cheers On 10 April 2017 at 17:14, Agustín Dall'Alba <agustin at dallalba.com.ar> wro...