sebp;616387 Wrote: > 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. > > > 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. > > > 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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