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In Reply to: Besides being "a typical audiophile ploy", resolution is also a qualitative attribute. posted by carcass93 on September 22, 2014 at 11:27:58:
The basic issue is that "more details" may be wrong. It may not correspond to what is actually on the recording. This may be hard to appreciate, but less so if one has experience making recordings and playing them back. I do not question that people perceive differences. What I question is when they apply pseudo-technical reasoning to translate these perceptions back to specific causes. (Not generally a problem with you, BTW.)
When I evaluate a piece of software, I try to get a feel for what it is supposed to do, by experimentation or by RTFM. Then, at least in my better moments, I try it out with a few test cases. In many cases, if the software was ill conceived I succeed in crashing it on the spot. However, if it's just a matter of speed (a.k.a. performance) then I know there are may ways to expose or cover up performance difficulties. Decades ago I used to run competitive performance benchmarks, and was familiar with a variety of ways to present one's product "in the most favorable light". Later, I debunked various "scientific" performance analysis that showed that certain technologies (e.g. Ethernet) were inferior to others (e.g. Token ring). In most case, the manipulative techniques were obvious and covered in books such as How to Lie with Statistics.
My concern with databases and database theory was mostly around getting correct results, rather than optimizing performance. Back in those days, computer crashes were the rule rather than the exception, so data integrity was paramont. Hopefully, today the questions have advanced to matters of privacy and security.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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