When I was at Berklee [0] we had considerable ear frequency response training that would involve weekly hearing quizzes where they would boost/buck certain frequency bands of either pink noise or music and you had to pick out which band was made louder or softer. Additionally, we had a quiz where you had to listen to lossless vs mp3 at different bit rates and determine which was which. We also did neat things like trying to pick out what type of guitar and pickups someone was using in a recording simply by ear.
320 kbps mp3 vs lossless 16bit WAV (cd quality) is extremely difficult to hear the delta without training, but if you know what the source instruments are supposed to sound like, such as hats and you can focus on their frequency band, you can hear compression artifacts and comb filtering.
This course really changed how I take in music and sounds in general.
320 kbps mp3 vs lossless 16bit WAV (cd quality) is extremely difficult to hear the delta without training, but if you know what the source instruments are supposed to sound like, such as hats and you can focus on their frequency band, you can hear compression artifacts and comb filtering.
This course really changed how I take in music and sounds in general.
[0] https://online.berklee.edu/courses/critical-listening-1