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by anigbrowl 2580 days ago
It doesn't. I worked as a sound engineer in film for a decade and I'm extremely forensically minded.
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You motivated me to investigate.

Extreme example, compare audio at 4m and 21m - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dbQ2OA4SRA

Clearly a different top end.

Did a little tinkering in Audacity and with the beard there's a standard roll off from 3khz to 10khz. Without there's a weird flat spot in the same area (both are averaged over 20 seconds or so)

But are you absolutely sure there aren't tiny, tiny differences? I don't think it's likely, but how can you be so sure?
I'm dubious because of the frequency range of audio recordings (especially post compression on Youtube) and the size of cells, even large ones like hair follicles.
You can't know this.
How do you know he can't know this?