NPR released the quiz that you see below when the lossless music streaming service, TIDAL, launched in 2015, to determine whether listeners could decipher an uncompressed WAV file, from a 320 kbps MP3, from a 128 kbps MP3. Wondering if I was the only one, I sent an audio quality quiz to my Berklee Online coworkers, a pretty musically inclined group, if we do say so ourselves. To my dismay, I could not tell a significant difference between high resolution and the normal resolution sound quality of the streaming services I was used to. I started the free trial and expected to be blown away by the sound quality. This became apparent when I heard about Amazon Music’s new high fidelity music streaming service. You need an experienced palate to know how to pick up notes of pear and oak in a fine wine just like you need an experienced ear to listen for crisp hi-hats and full-bodied reverb in a song. Audiophiles are like sommeliers of music.
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