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This is a clickbait article to make the reader feel a sense of superiority. The forum thread is linked on the article. It's not a real blind test. Secondly the title is just a straight up lie, it's not that they couldn't tell that the sounds were different, they could not determine the original sound.
The test includes 4 unmarked 30 second clips of various songs. 1 clip is the original file, 1 clip is the file looped through a copper cable, 1 clip is the file looped through a banana, 1 clip is the file looped through mud. If this were a serious test, the original sample would be labeled so that people would know what the reference point is. Secondly, how would anyone be able to tell the difference between mud and banana? Do you know what a banana sounds like?
The forum post was just meant to be a silly game and the article treats it as a serious test.
I have 4 printing of the Mona Lisa. One printing is the original, one printing I dipped in water, one printing I dipped in apple juice, and one printing I dipped in piss. Can you spot which Mona Lisa was dipped in apple juice and which one was dipped in piss? The Mona Lisa is already pretty yellow, which yellow is the correct yellow?
raises hand
So I'm color blind, and I've never really given it much thought before. Apple Juice is yellow?
In the same way that healthy piss is yellow. That is, no, it's more of a light amber sort of color.
Amber.
The original is the dry one
I would smell