Lord Hasenpfeffer wrote:

Encoding 128kb/s MP3s of it at -5dB, -10dB, -15dB, and -25dB down from
it's original level and then importing the MP3s and amplifying them back
to just under Full Scale with Audacity reveals no appreciable difference
at least to my ears - even though the animated close-ups I've been able
to create from various screenshots of these "loudness-restored" WAVs do
reveal visual discrepancies.

You should at least hear signifigant increases in the noise
level when you get as far as -25 dB. Don't you? Or are you
working at greater than 16 bits for these trials?


Bob
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"Things should be described as simply as possible, but no
simpler."

A. Einstein