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Doing some null tests before to give those kinds of remarks is absolutely mandatory.
For me it’s mythological nonsense too.
There are many discussions like this inside forums, but i’ve never seen proofs with null tests.
Seriously…
Too much people are loosing there time in trying to reach some kind of mythological sound quality Nirvana.
This time could be used to learn better mix technics and learn how digital audio behaves at the sampling and processing level.
This is what i will describe as the platinum or diamond ears syndrome.
I think that a mix is better and fastly done with normal ears than with platinum or diamond ears.
This syndrome was not so widespread until digital audio and computing started to deeply change our work.
It is driving a full market of expensive gear, softwares and plugins and is consuming a lot of user time.