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In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Horsecook@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 hours ago

Everything you said is wrong.

Only noticing the distortion you care about is fine. If you don’t notice it, it is necessarily irrelevant. You are not a computer, analog audio signals are not a digital transmission of data, where errors make the data unreadable.

An original recording was provided. The re-recordings are supposed to sound like the original. They’re not testing microphones, or whatever processing the audio engineer did, the sound of the original instruments is irrelevant.