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It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes.

RE: You see, son, it's like this. . .

Would that it be so simple. A friend sent a Word document to an associate, he got back an edited version. Unfortunately some of the words ran together without spaces. It might be different versions of Word. It might be a font problem. It might ... Similarly, if you copy a digital audio file with a "lossless" compression such as FLAC and then expand it you get back the "same" file, except that it may not be the same. They headers may differ due to software issues. Do they sound different? Maybe. If so, try different software and then they might sound the same, or not.

And let's say you take a file on one hard drive and copy it to another, this time bit perfect. Do the two files sound the same when you play them? That's the theory, but if you listen carefully you may just find that practice doesn't always accord with theory. These are all real differences that I and others have observed. In some cases it was possible to trace down the ultimate cause of differences. In others it wasn't.

A dogmatic attitude is not productive to uncovering the truth.


Tony Lauck

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


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