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Originally Posted by Dean
Not likely. humans are OK at A vs. B comparisons like eye tests, but not typically good at wave form accuracy. That is why mp3s at 128K CBR sound pretty good to most people until you put them up against the original material at which point at least some can recognize the differences.
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I didn't mean better ears in a literal sense. I should have said better trained ears than the average person. Judges need to be very familiar with the recordings used during competition, and they listen to them on a reference system frequently so that they can compare to the systems they are judging.