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No, what I am saying is that after it is run thru the various DAW software AS-IS, and then rendered down from that software, we try to see if there is a difference or not...




I'm not sure there is such a thing as "as-is". You should set certain things when you begin to record with DAW software. Global recording bit-rate is one of them.

In the cockos link, note that this is not the same as you proposed, since they introduced 24-bit. Even then, no significant difference.


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