Okay, here we go. FFIX Audio Blind test:
Here are 2 files. Anyone who wants can listen to both. Which one you think is from PSX and which one from PC? Please don't try to cheat your way through and actually listen to it. But as I mentioned before, even if the difference is there, it is not possible to tell which one is actually better.
I will tell which one is which at some later point.
After this, source files for the test may be provided upon a request via PM.
Two important notes:
First, as you can hear, both of the files sound like crap. That's how it is. So replacing PC
music with alternatives, taken from, lets say, official soundtrack, is not a bad idea.
But in case of sound effects, you won't find those elsewhere. So replacing crap with crap is stupid.
Second, since audio in PSX and PC has a different loudness, samples were normalized to -23 LUFS accordingly to the ITU-R BS.1770-3 standard.