How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?

[Liep]

http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/how-well-can-you-hear-audio-quality

I failed spectacularly on my Sonos speakers, I'll take the test later on my stereo and once with my headphones.

2/6 

The only one I was certain of was the classical music snippet.

[crazy canuck]

Same 2/6.  I heard a difference in the classical.  I also heard it in Neil Young - its hard to make the whiney voice sound better.

[Brezel]

3/6 on laptop built-in speakers. Only on Katy Perry and Suzanne Vega songs could I hear the difference (or that's what I like to think). Other than those and one random pick, I selected the sample with the lowest quality. 

[Agelastus]

3 out of 6 using a pair of Beats headphones on my PC (with the TV on in the background.) Vega, Neil Young and Coldplay.

The three I picked "wrong" I went for the 320kbs MP3 each time.

Vega seemed to have the most difference to me - maybe it's a quality of her voice.

[Admiral Yi]

All three of the Neil Young tracks sounded like they were recorded in a dumpster.

[Ed Anger]

Neil Young sucks

[katmai]

4/6.  just by listening to my laptops internal speaker.

Y'all need hearing aids.

[Josephus]

You got 4 out of 6 correct!

If you did well on this and were listening through built-in speakers, you either have extraordinary ears or got lucky.

[katmai]

Heh well I know in my case it is hearing as wasn't in camera dept I'd be doing audio mixing/engineering.