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To be fair, I have worked with older sound engineers, and they can hear a lot of audio artifacts that I miss, just because they've been paying closer attention for a lot longer than I have, much in the same way my wife (who plays violin 6+ hours most days) can hear tuning and pitch problems better than I can.

High frequency limiting is not the only artifact that results from data compression.



Yeah. I worked for a long time as a professional musician in an orchestra. I fucked up my hands from practising too much, so I switched career.

I can reliably hear a pitch difference of ~0.2hz at this site: http://tonometric.com/adaptivepitch/

and that is after 15 years in a symphony orchestra having my ears blasted by the brass and percussion section (with a demonstrated hearing impairment from my time in the orchestra).




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