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Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th... by sneak on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @04:51AM (#35148836)
If you scored worse than a coin flip, then you are successfully able to distinguish 320kbps from lossless, which is a rare feat in human beings! (Just invert your answer for the correct one.)

If you cannot distinguish, you will be the same as a coin flip; i.e. random.

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Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th... by sorum on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @08:40AM (#35150522)
Hah! Never thought of that. Nice one
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Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th... by alanh on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @12:17PM (#35153897)
Studies have shown that people that grew up listening to compressed audio tend to rate it as 'better' than lossless, which is kind of sad/amazing.

Anyway, not to take this sub-thread too seriously, but obviously it depends how reproducible your deviation from 50-50 is :-)

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