"S888Wheel" wrote in message


For those who believe that the formats do not matter like Arny.

Unlike you s888wheel, I've made a sincere effort at collecting reliable
evidence that is relevant to this question.

Your approach seems to be to search out gurus who tell you what you want to
hear.

They tend to also believe that the converters also don't matter.

Yet another gernatlization that is false.

They are claiming things are being altered before the A/D conversion.

Fools that we are, we think that microphones, musicans, rooms, and recording
techniques actually matter.

Clearly Steve is *not* doing this.

He's banned discussion of ABX - he seems to be a man after your own heart,
s888wheel!

So thanks for clearing things up. The
*mastering* is the same for the two layers as far as the art of
mastering goes.

Except that once the details are known, its all still up in the air.

I think it is quite obvious that two different
digital formats will *require* two different A/D converters.

However, what other processing that is involved is unknown. And, we now know
for sure that Hoffman would not be caught dead auditioning his work with
bias controls in place.