Recently conducted subjective test results are presented here. The result compares two different modes of ISR against MP3 Surround and mpeg surround. ISR uses Teslapro as its core codec. An elaborate discussion on this was presented in NY 2007 AES convention. The same is available here.
Coding scheme | ISR-12 | ISR-08 | MP3 Surround | Low Anchor | Original |
Mean Score | 3.92857 | 3.60714 | 3.37805 | 1.65476 | 4.96428 |
In the second test ISR shows significant gains in terms of quality compared to recently standardized MPEG Surround. In these tests core codec for ISR and MPEG Surround was replaced with original audio as input. The below figure shows the subjective score:
Coding scheme | ISR-08 | ISR-12 | MPEG Surround | Low Anchor | Original |
Mean Score | 3.57143 | 4.01190 | 3.07143 | 1.60714 | 4.95238 |