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The reason Stuart was able to do so in this case was he had a known instance where he knew it was the same master, and he had the MLP (lossless)-encoded version to work with as a base of comparison.


Are you talking about a film soundtrack here or an audio disc? "MLP" says to me that the original has already been altered in some way or another. Also, I've never heard of MLP as a compression format for a film.

Soundhound's comparison is really nice because he has the "original" audio files to compare to the DD and DTS versions of the film.

One more thing, as mentioned in the article that D'Arbignal linked to; hearing and percieving are two different things. I would add to that list the word listening. I do, however, like that the article mentions that musical enjoyment is really not measureable.