paul.raulerson;693820 Wrote: > Going out on a limb here, but some folks I know claim that emailing a > file can "change" it and make it sound different. I would normally > discount that out of hand, but this came from a very noted record > producer and engineer with her own studio. That gives me serious > pause. > > -Paul
This kind of nonsense, and make no mistake this is pure 100% nonsense, is truly amazing. I once ran a test which goes a long way towards showing why this is all nonsense. Here's what I did. 1) I ripped a track from a CD into a wav file. 2) I converted that wav file to a flac file. 3) I uploaded this flac file to a newsgroup which means that the flac file was converted into a yEnc file (a yEnc encoder converts binary data, like the data (not music!!!) in a digital audio file, into text) and that yEnc file was then split into several smaller message files for posting. 4) I downloaded this yEnc file from the newsgroup which means that all the posts which contain the text only representation of the binary data were downloaded and then assembled into one big encoded text file which was converted back into a flac file. 5) I converted this uploaded/download flac file back into a wav file. 6) Finally I compared the two wav files and guess what - they were identical!! This clearly outlines the fundamental difference between digital data and analog data and this is quite clearly something that the authors of the TAS series in question either don't understand or, more likely, understand all too well and willfully ignore since getting the readership of TAS confused about these very clear differences between digital and analog data serves the purposes of the TAS advertisers to a tee! -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 (oops) -> Touch 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93549 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
