Do you have Golden Ears? Take the test and find out

[maxw]

https://www.goldenears.philips.com/en/introduction.html

With no cheating at all, I can't get passed the MP3 tests in the Bronze stage.

 

[sreten]

Hi,

Well I've breezed through the Basic and Bronze
Stages just using my very basic computer speakers
(X140's) and haven't seen a test related to MP3.

rgds, sreten.

Ah... MP3 tests are on the Silver stage ...
It is a tricky stage for sure, seems easy
to get confused and get worse at it, a
new track your not used to doesn't help,
and a very annoying tedious clip to boot.

 

[maxw]

Ah well I got further than I thought then.

Did you make gold?

 

[SyncTronX]

I didn't take the test.

However, I have heard the difference an ohm makes
in a crossover.

These were Mills 1% resistors used for the slope of the
crossover point in a pair of Magnapan speakers.

I couldn't figure out why the 1.5 ohm resistors sounded
so much worse than the 1 ohm, 2 ohm resistors.

When I measured it it was actually a 2.5 ohm resistor
that had gotten mis labeled.

Maybe I will take the test. But you know going through cheesey
little computer speakers isn't really "hi-end" is it?

 

[Mooly]

Can you save where you are up to in it so that you can come back to it later ?

I've spent at least 15 minutes clicking through all the tests as quickly as possible but its far too long winded and despite getting them all correct I have only just ended the bronze.

 

[mcandmar]

Same here, i spent what felt like an hour at it was still in the bronze stage. Anybody who gets to gold should get an award for patience.

 

[SyncTronX]

As I suspected, can't do much with
noisy envrionment and inefficient
lap top spekers.

Baby, dog, toys etc don't help picking up noise either.