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RE: Hmmm... RE: Yet another post babbling about huge sonic changes

"Or you can just try Ultracopier or any file copying software with smaller block/buffer size and see if sounds different yourself. Much faster than debating over null result. ;)

Regards,
Keetakawee"

Well, that's the problem isn't it?

Over the years, my music collection has been copied back and forth many times. Sometimes for backup. Sometimes to reshuffle folders. And over the last decade, the copying has been done by various versions of Windows. Sometimes it's between SSD drives. Sometimes between hard drives. Sometimes with Windows XP/Vista/10/Server 2012/Linux/Mac OS X. Sometimes through WiFi/powerline ethernet/gigabit ethernet...

Each one of those copies have involved different block sizes on the storage device itself. Each OS will do things a little differently. interfaces like ethernet may have standard vs. "jumbo" frames.

Should there not then be wildly different sounds based on the "history" of the files??? I haven't noticed any difference barring file corruption. I don't recall any discussion in the vast majority of boards about these kinds of differences...

It's not about arguing null results. It's about actually understanding what you're doing and why you think it makes a difference. What's the point of saying Ultracopy sounds different if we cannot learn anything from it. It just leads to more neurotic and obsessional thinking most likely originating from placebo effect (again as you had brought up) if you can't state your case showing that you accounted for this.
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