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From: Griffin <hosgriffin@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Is this fake flac? Should I post this to this group?
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 19:40:07 -0500
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On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 00:30:41 -0400, Stanley Turpentine
<sp69@nunya.biz> wrote:
>On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 11:21:42 -0500, Griffin <hosgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I don't have a lot of knowledge about this, but hopefully someone in
>>this group can tell if this is fake or not.
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>Griffin
>
>I've seen many posts that are MP3 with sloped auto blanking dither added so that
>you cant tell from the spectrum view, and being auto blanking you cant tell from
>the head or the tail. How I can tell is when there is any almost blank spot in
>the audio, looking at the spectrum for that spot you can see it's mostly dither
>and sloped up so it masks the brick wall at 18k. Also there are many
>compilations from questionable labels where they were sourced from MP3 and put
>on CD. Any audiochecker app is useless because all they do is look for the brick
>wall. Being an engineer of 35 years and having golden ears I can easily hear the
>difference because the phase information is removed with MP3. Instruments are
>smeared across the stereo image. I have a process I use even on real lossless
>where I correct the phase dynamically. When I do that with some 320k MP3 even I
>cant tell the difference.
The real question is should I post this to this group?
Thanks everyone for your response.
Griffin
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