Michael Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Well, not really an analogy at all. The whisper remains a
>whisper while the noise-level in the room goes up and swamps it.
>But here, we're talking about some kind of change in the
>character of the signal due to ATRAC (whether it's weird
>artefacts accompanying low bass, HF hash, loss of stereo
>imaging, whatever) - surely the louder the playback volume, the
>more apparent the deviation from the original reference?
That's what I meant by "bad analogy" ;-) Yes, the louder the volume, the
louder the artifacts, but what I was trying to say was that the human ear
lowers its sensitivity the louder the "noise" it hears. The louder the
music, the less sensitive your ears are to "subtle artifacts."
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