DaViD Boulet
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Regarding #4
those of use with laserdisc collections can hear the "clear" benefits of lossless audio even with old mono source material from vintage films.
Even a constricted, hiss-filled mag mono track will sound better left alone that with the added compromise of psychoactoustic reduction. In fact, the noise in old recordings might even tax the compresion algorithms making their effects more noticable.
Sony has released a number of 1950's films on Blu-ray with TrueHD and the option to play the core 640 kbps DD track as well. These are low-budget films from the 50s... not epic classics that would have received top-teir audio mastering in their day. Even with the audio tracks of such "B grade" 50s movies, you can hear the more open, natural sound of the lossless encoding in comparison to the 640 kbps DD lossy alternative.