Woah woah woah. When did we get another sailor with a Guybrush avatar?!?

My ears cannot detect those differences (reliably) on cheap PC speakers at a quick listen and to me border on placebo realm but they are certainly measurable and very quantifiable.

  nope

My placebo feeling says I like A more and feel like it is less annoying than B but I say placebo because the difference is quite small on my hd280pro.

Without over analyzing, and based on my comparisons without trying to scientifically eliminate placebo (I havent done an ABX yet) I feel the lower frequencies of the vocals are ever so slightly richer on A. This is the opportunity to shoot me down hehehe but yah like I said I myself have a feeling its just placebo since I don't hear anything jump out at me like when comparing oggs vs mp3s vs the original flac file.

EDIT: ahh nevermind... I discovered that its in the recording where sometimes the voice gets slightly thinner at times. Its both present on A & B

First AB Test here

foo_abx 1.3.4 report
foobar2000 v1.2.8
2013/06/23 08:30:13

File A: C:\Users\donunus\Downloads\a.flac
File B: C:\Users\donunus\Downloads\b.flac

08:30:13 : Test started.
08:35:58 : 01/01  50.0%
08:36:35 : 02/02  25.0%
08:37:36 : 03/03  12.5%
08:38:10 : 04/04  6.3%
08:38:24 : 05/05  3.1%
08:38:56 : 05/06  10.9%
08:39:17 : 06/07  6.3%
08:39:39 : 06/08  14.5%
08:40:10 : 06/09  25.4%
08:40:40 : 07/10  17.2%
08:41:29 : 07/11  27.4%
08:41:45 : 07/12  38.7%
08:42:31 : 08/13  29.1%
08:43:19 : 08/14  39.5%
08:43:49 : 09/15  30.4%
08:44:06 : Test finished.

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Total: 9/15 (30.4%)

I got a perfect 5/5 at first since I could tell the difference of the flow of the sound when switching from track to track then fatigue sets in after that I was becoming less sure the higher the trials went. Anyway, this was with an hd280pro out of a realtek soundcard and an O2 amp. When a dac arrives here I'll test it again.