Assuming from the press release that this is an apodizing filter that 'removes' Gibbs effect preringning... how many peer reviewed studies can we compile here below my post that indicate anyone can hear these 'artifacts'?

Ready, on your marks, go!

Be careful of publications from the businesses that are pushing these filters (eg, Meridian audio / J. Robert Stuart). AES papers count only if the results have been independently reproduced (the AES is in the business of publishing 'interesting ideas', and the papers run the gamut of careful science to raving lunacy).

"I listened and _totally_ heard a rounder, fuller sound with better staging" is not data. It's what audiophiles have said of every nonsense breakthrough of the past 40 years. The one true breakthrough, digital audio, they generally still roundly pan and feel the need to 'fix' by sprinkling fertilizer all over it. It's like holy penguin pee, only it smells bad.

'Proofs' and explanations are nice, I indulge in them myself, but the blind listening data is the final authority.

We had about six years where Linux wasn't the unsupported red-headed stepchild of the Web. It was nice while it lasted.

Firefox is losing market share, so it's understandable that they want to avoid the following: "We notice you have an unsupported browser. Please download Safari or IE to view this content". That wouldn't really serve anyone's interests.

Unfortunately, this just pushes the problem onto Linux as a whole: "We notice you have an unsupported OS. Please use Mac OS or Windows to legally view this content."

If you turn the samples up until you can hear the noise floor, you can easily hear the difference. Of course, at those levels, a full range signal would launch your speaker cones out of the cabinets. So is that a fair comparison of 16 vs 24?

There are any number of ways to cheat an ABX test to your own satisfaction. If the goal is to delude yourself, you'll probably succeed.

That copypasta hasn't been funny for at least five years if ever.

If you wanna troll, let's go... I'll take your side, you take mine and no one under the age of thirty will have any freaking clue what just happened.
>>> /g/

Too bad Shannon and Nyquist are dead. It seems they've completely misunderstood the math. How embarrassing they passed on before you could correct their mistake. Now they'll never know.

Truthiness refers to a specific kind of lie-- a lie that sounds true, and that a large segment of people really want to be true. The kind of thing that's close enough to true for AM radio talk show hosts.

And now... I'll get off your damned lawn. Don't forget to take your teeth out before falling asleep.

...is at the top of the first Opus/CELT demo page:

http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/celt/demo.html

The low latency makes more interactive applications possible. By way of illustration, the total algorithmic delay of an Opus or CELT stream is approximately equivalent to the time it takes sound to travel from you to someone standing five feet away.