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RE: There's a strong possibility that it won't move past sighted listening.

Sorry, the two rip files may have the same MD5 checksum and the same bits stored in them, but they will not be identical. They will have different metadata. They will have different file names and will be stored on different disk sectors. Therefore, the logical axiom of equality is not applicable. Reasoning should be as simple as possible, but not too simple. In this case, your reasoning is too simple.

You can trust me: if I ever get two files that are bit identical that I can hear sound different, I will get to the bottom of the situation, no matter if it is the last thing I do. Every case that I've seen so far has always ended up in one of three ways: (1) the files were not bit identical, (2) the files sounded the same to me on my system, or (3) the files sounded different to me on my system until I found and fixed a problem with my system. For example, I found that two files that had the same bits in them did sound different. Indeed, they sounded different even when playing with the volume control turned all the way down. This was because one file was fragmented and the other was not and it was possible to hear clicks from the disk seeks. The cure was to copy both files to RAM disk and play out of there.

Tony Lauck

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


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