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Come on, now

From Mkuller I see nothing but venom, vituperation, counterfactual claims, accusations, deliberate insults, and the like. I dare say that I don't really want to count up all the many apologies I'm owed in that regard, if we go back to the netnews days and the springing-forth of the "expert" to attack DBT's on completely fallacious grounds. He has, frankly, stalked me for quite a while, and has by now very nearly risen to the level of some of the other stalkers I acquired while bothering with rec.audio.opinion and rec.audio.high-end.

If I'm owed an apology, why should I not ask for it?

Now, you have exactly zero idea what the original goal of compression algorithms was, it was to be "indistinquishable" from the original. Certainly, some of them fell short, some by much more than others, and MP3 is a very old algorithm at this point, as well. What's more, people persist in using it at bitrates that are far below any rate the original inventors intended. MP3 was intended for 128kb/s for a stereo pair at the bitter minimum. Look what people do with it now. MPEG-AAC was intended originally for much better quality at the same rate, look what people do with it now. (The "AAC+" and "HEAAC" algorithms are newer, and are intentionally perceptually lossy in order to get to very low rates, furthermore, I have nothing at all to do with those, as you'd find out if you bothered to check the technology.) All of the tests run did attempt to tell if the subjects could, in fact, tell the difference between the original and the coded, and almost inevetably they could at the rates tested. (Which shows, by the way, full well how accurate a proper DBT is.)

Perceptions, everyone's perceptions, are stunningly fallable. "Trust your ears" is a recipe for unintentional self-deception of a remarkable order. Those are the facts. That's just how it is. If you want to do that for your own purposes, fine, be my guest. But if you're offering advice to someone else, I think you owe more than your own perceptions, OR you owe it to the reader to explain that's all they get.

In short, his insinuations, insinuations that he has continued year after year, in forum after forum, carry the message that people who use DBT's are quacks, that they are bad scientists, that they do fraudulent or deceptive work, and so on. He has been relentless in his professional accustions. Curiously enough, nobody in the field takes him seriously enough to pay attention.

For all of this, I think I am owed not only one, but a whole variety of apologies.

How dare you castigate me for asking for what I deserve?

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