dafiend wrote: > Sure, and again you're making some reasonable points. > > I guess I'm just saying that I don't expect a reasonable test to be > mission impossible. Disable all options (such as loudness correction > options) in the streaming client, and capture lossy and lossless > streams. I suspect if the community did this for a sample of tracks, > we'd probably even be able to identify the exact master for a sizable > subsample. > > I feel the discussion got sidetracked a bit, too (e.g., conversations > about lossy and hearing impairment). Once again, I firmly believe the > argument for lossy is particularly strong for streaming, more so than > for other applications such as archival. > > EDIT Somebody cmiiw, but the only major thing that's limiting the > usefulness of my suggesting is the legal aspect. Discussing test results > in public may be problematic, as it may not be legal to capture DRMed > streams in many jurisdictions. /EDIT
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