Hear for Yourself: One Sounds Good, the Other Horrible

Analyze and compare the sound of these two videos. (below)

This audio comparison demonstrates the importance of good audio resolution and encoding quality, as well as serving as a nice little ear-training exercise 😉

*TO HEAR THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCES, LISTEN TO:

• The clarity of the high frequencies. (Especially the hi-hats, but guitars and vocals, too. The badly encoded version is very “swishy/smeared/blurry” sounding in the high-mids and high frequencies. Terrible.)
• The general level of low frequencies (The good one has plenty of low end and a nice fullness, the bad one has much less low frequency level and therefore sounds very midrangy)

GOOD sounding Unforgiven II:

BAD sounding Unforgiven II:

What is your evaluation of this comparison? Comment below!

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