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In the Thread: New Barenboim’s Bruckner Release

Post Subject: Two different things??Posted by steverino on: 5/25/2014

Rowuk,

I am not comparing lossless to lossy although the last quoted passage above does give food for thought. My point was that the performers, engineers etc produce a mastertape. Then the mastertape is altered not to improve it but to make it easier to create a lossy version. However, these manipulations occur "off camera" and prior to sending the "altered for Itunes" lossless version to ITunes or wherever. So both the "ITunes lossless" and the lossy soundfiles are different than the mastertape in ways that are invisible to the customer but are in all probability quite audible. Therefore the true comparison is between the altered "lossless" soundfile sent to Itunes and the original unaltered mastertape soundfile. However people will be assured that the altered degraded "lossless" file is in fact the real lossless soundfile. At least in the vinyl era no one called the vinyl mastering "the mastertape" but that's where we are headed now.

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