so can we get back to the topic and please post if you hear a difference and then if you can tell which samples go together
thanks
To reiterate my own results: in sighted listening I was not sure I could hear a difference, but preferred A in both cases. I then chopped each file up and tried to put the pieces back together blindly, and couldn't.
Which leads me to believe:
Any difference I thought I could hear in the sighted comparison was very subtle.
I may well have been imagining it. (This would be my firm conclusion if it turns out one A track is stock and the other is modded.)
Alternately, blind testing might create some sort of "stress" that interferes with perception of subtle details. (If A is from the same source for both, that would be consistent with, but by no means prove, this hypothesis. Certainly there's a decent chance I could "guess" both correctly regardless of what I could actually hear.)
Playback on ADS L710 speakers and Grado SR80 headphones.
I still can't download the samples. Would someone please post a graph that shows the difference?
You can download them here (one big 169.5 MB zip file) if the original link doesn't work for you:
http://homepage.mac.com/satterwill/FR2LEcompTNJedd.zip