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Originally posted by mezzanine
The human auditory cortex can't even process the differences between various degrees of audio quality and compression, or detect slight changes in the audio waveform of a song.
True. But we're not talking about slight changes here. We are talking about major fuckups which mess with the music. Just listen to the youtube clip Nile linked. Even while that is in crappy youtube quality you can clearly hear the drums are much richer in the GH3 version.
The waveform will tell you why, it totally lacks dynamic. This happens to a lot of audio CDs and there is no good reason why they mess with the music like this.
I think it's insane that people who want to pay a decent amount of money for an album (while downloading is so easy these days) can't even listen to it in the intended quality. Caring about the quality of the sound = caring about the music, certainly when you can hear the difference in a blind test.
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