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Is the cat alive or dead?

"So if the FILES are "different" are you willing to bet your life they are sonically different?

There are lots of "different" files that sound the same or should sound the same. Whether they actually do depends on the specifics of the files and the facts of the time, place (including equipment) and person listening.

It is possible to create files that have tiny differences that should not result in audible differences and that do not result in audible differences on some systems. On other systems, the two files sound different. Even at this point one doesn't really know what is going on without further investigation. It may be that the small differences were audible on a resolving system to a trained listener and otherwise inaudible. It may be that the small differences were not audible at all on a clean and resolving system to an expert listener, but on a different system these small differences were magnified into larger differences due to various system artifacts.

It is even possible, or more accurately, it is certain that playing the same file twice will produce different patterns of sound waves in the room.

I am not a cat.



Tony Lauck

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

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