Plain vs Aspirated Stops

QUESTION (repeated): If you're a native Chinese speaker, do you hear an audible distinction between the English B (/b/ in the International Phonetic Alphabet) and Pinyin B (/p/ in the IPA)?

CONTEXT: English speaker here, basically zero knowledge of Chinese but some knowledge of phonology/phonetics.

My understanding is that Mandarin & Cantonese have a different set of plosives than English. On the International Phonetic Alphabet, I see that Mandarin and Cantonese have something like this:

/pʰ/ (spelled P in Pinyin) vs /p/ (spelled B in Pinyin)
/tʰ/ (T in Pinyin) vs /t/ (D in Pinyin)
/kʰ/ (K in Pinyin) vs /k/ (G in Pinyin)

Each pairing is an aspirate contrasted with a plain, voiceless stop.

English, on the other hand, looks like this:*

/pʰ/ (P in English) vs /b/ (B in English)
/tʰ/ (T in English) vs /d/ (D in English)
/kʰ/ (K in English) vs /g/ (G in English)

Here, each pairing is an aspirate contrasted with a voiced stop.

*Caveat: yes, these are allophonic and at least in English, I know aspiration often depends on where the consonant appears in a word.

**Second caveat: If I've got the IPA equivalents for the Pinyin characters wrong, please let me know.
***Third caveat: If I've messed up anything else here, please let me know.

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