Well you would think some sort of reverse engineering should be involved. After all, take what we can hear, produce the sound through the best gear, and cut off the stuff we can't hear, and then talk to us.

So in reality if a pair of $50 speakers or a file at X size works, and it's good enough tell us for pete's sake.

When it comes to digital, if it's clean it's clean. Much like a song played in a banquet hall, at the end of the night someone might comment on some song I played on a badly tuned piano, but most leave with fond memories of friends, laughs, food, and fellowship, and that riff I threw into Satin Doll, well I was the only one who noticed.

So genius friends, take the average hearing of a 40 year old, and back the thing the other way, and let us know.

Or not. Myths are good as long as you really really buy into them.

John Conley
Musica est vita