Absolutely right Matt and Jake M. They needed to control these tests correctly. AAC Fairplay vs. AAC (Same bitrate), and WMA without DRM vs WMA with DRM (Same bitrate).
The tests are worthless as they stand, as they're comparing different codecs.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Absolutely right Matt and Jake M.
They needed to control these tests correctly. AAC Fairplay vs. AAC (Same bitrate), and WMA without DRM vs WMA with DRM (Same bitrate).
The tests are worthless as they stand, as they're comparing different codecs.