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In the Thread: New Barenboim’s Bruckner Release

Post Subject: Loudness war or hamburger delights?Posted by rowuk on: 5/25/2014

There are a couple of things that come to mind here:
IF there is a danger of clipping and 0dB has to be moved down, we have two things happening: a resampling downwards which will have its toll on sound as well as the new file being less loud - a direct comparison will ALWAYS favor the louder version (when there is no clipping) even if they were otherwise identical - which they are not anymore.
So, at the end of the day, you don't know anything until you have listened to the result instead of analysing the technical process with its many variables. This was also true of vinyl. You didn't really know anything until the disc was on the record player.
Lossless is not "meaningless" in my book, it simply has no relation to the sonic result. The chance of it being "audibly" better than a lossy version is still very great. I think it is more like an argument if McDonalds or BurgerKing burgers taste better.........

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