"If you pay this contractor, we guarantee this contractor will provide this minimal service."
But he doesn't have to pay. And it's not called slavery, it's the conditions if you to agree if you want to provide that service, but no one forces you to enter that business. It's no more slavery than an EULA.
No, it means a large number of people thought the MP3 is what it *should* sound like. Most people are use to crappy music encodes these days, so wouldn't realise higher quality encodes as it should sound like.
Doesn't help that the DAC/ADC etc are pretty poor in the common mans PC too, and the higher quality ones of those also have some awesome DSP that can help get over some of the deficiencies in the encoding. I wonder if that USB card they used allowed them to totally deactivate all DSP. My ASUS D2X allows me to do such, but most cards do not.
If it was true that people just couldn't tell the difference the results for choosing one over the other would be roughly equal.
Not only that, but reviewers are even biased by the expectation of the wine type. Take a dry white wine, add red coloring, and even trained reviewers will describe the white as sweet, and the 'red' as dry. There's a huge expectation bias.
And NASA can say "What do you think all that stuff was for? It worked, didn't it?"
Even better: We could hire Bruce Willis and make an action movie about how they prevented the end of the world and cash in afterward as well!
He couldn't fit it in his case, you insensitive clod!
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." -- Albert Einstein
