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RE: Article Itself Has Some Fallacies......

If you are comparing two different recordings in two separate formats then it will be difficult to impossible to attribute differences to the formats. Indeed, most likely, the differences are due to the recordings, maybe even the music and the musicians.

If you are comparing two different releases of the same recording in different formats, then it is likely that the mastering and later remastering were done on different dates, by different engineers using different equipment. The musicians and original recording have been removed from possible causes of differences, but a new variable may have been added, physical deterioration of the master tape over the years.

If you are lucky and you have through documentation of the mastering process for two formats then as a listener it may be possible to remove some of the possible sources of confusion. In some cases, there are copies of the same master tape that is played twice and recorded with the identical ADC at two sample rates. If you then play these two recordings back on the same DAC you will have removed most variables from the equation.

It is simpler, faster and more reliable to do format conversions yourself, either with live recordings or various extant recordings. It is then possible to do real experimentation (as in physics) and not historical analysis (as in archaeology).

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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