[scotty79]

"When a man looks for something beyond his reach ..."

The word "looks" sounds completely wrong for me with Lyra. To the point of completely not understanding what this word is supposed to be (first example with your [1] link).

[est31]

For me "looks" sounds fine but the word before, "Man", sounds like "Lan". So to me the opus sample sounds more understandable. Even though the "quality" of Lyra is better, that shouldn't be the score to optimize for, but fidelity of the compression. It's not helpful if the compression algorithm generates a beautiful flower from a flower image but it's a red flower instead of a blue one like the original. Gives me Xerox vibes...

[ghusbands]

Similarly, for me, the word "miracle" in the the noisy environment becomes like "vericle" with Lyra, where in Opus it is clearer. (Speex does fairly badly, but in a way that's a clear failure overall rather than making it sound like something else.)

[com2kid]

To me, "man" sounds like "lan", but "looks" sounds correct.

I actually listened to the Lyra version first, and thought the speaker said "when a lad looks for something beyond his reach"