Phil Leigh;616382 Wrote: 
> Obviously this varies slightly from person to person.
As said, I don't trust my ears that much, and am pretty sure I couldn't
ABX the files.

The strange part is that I was challenging the files alone, and ignored
two friends of mine were doing the same.
One of them, who is more accustomed to comparisons than me, also
suspected his downsampled version was sounding lower.
I only discovered that later.

Phil Leigh;616382 Wrote: 
> In this comparison, how were the 2 versions created? - using SOX to
> downsample? - taking HD and CD versions from a commercial release
> doesn't work as there is no way of knowing how the masters were
> created.
I first compared commercial HD/CD downloads, and then rolled my own CD
version from the HD file.
In both cases this 0.38dB volume difference existed.

I'll try using r8brain to check whether the volume difference also
exists with that tool.

Phil Leigh;616382 Wrote: 
> By the way, the Audacity frequency spectrum analysis is highly suspect -
> it isn't accurate...
As I'm not an audio specialist, I wasn't sure my readings were right.
That's why I've computed replaygains to check.


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