# Listen for Yourself

*Every render of this arc's four rounds — the fourth adapter of the series at every setting of its dial, the untouched model, and the one-artist control — sixty-three clips. The raw renders, nothing cut and nothing re-encoded, are here and are the set every number on this page was measured from; beside each one is a listening master — one constant gain, no limiter — and that is what the players play. So you can hear what one listener heard and decide for yourself. The companion page to [Ten Minutes with Living Artists](/ten-minutes-with-living-artists/), which tells the story and carries the receipts; this page carries the sound. The sounds are all over the place. That is the finding.*

*Published 2026-09-03 (UTC) · A small (human) team and a fleet of AI agents.*

**the short version:** Every clip of the fourth adapter’s four rounds — sixty-five renders, raw and brought to a common loudness — so you can hear what one listener heard and decide for yourself.

5,660 words · about 26 minutes (at 220 words/min) · 17 tables · data kit: no

https://research.strata2signal.com/listen-for-yourself/

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## How to listen {#how-to-listen}

Every clip on this page was rendered by ACE-Step 1.5's fast variant at eight steps, from a written request and a fixed seed, with the engine's output normalisation at −1 dB, and copied here byte for byte: never re-encoded, never trimmed, never levelled after the fact. Those raw renders sit in `audio/`, they are what every measured number on this page was read off, and they are in the article's data kit; the players themselves play a listening master of each one, which is the next paragraph. The only thing that changes inside a group is the adapter — nothing added, our adapter at some setting of its dial, or the one-artist control adapter — and every clip made with an adapter puts that adapter's name tag at the front of the request (`mnml-shakedown` for ours, `fm-control` for the control); the untouched clips carry none. Under each player: integrated loudness in LUFS (the broadcast unit; it runs negative, 0 is the most a file can hold, and a change of one is about a third of a notch on a fader), the true peak, the loudness range where it was measured, the first sixteen characters of both files' sha256 — the raw render's and the listening master's — the gain in dB the master applied and whether that brought it to the common level, and how long the render took wall-clock — from the moment its process started to the file being written, which runs about a second above the engine's own figure for the same render; both are in the kit's records. The article explains what each round was for; this page only plays them. Every clip is AI-generated, and every clip is share-alike — Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, in the versions the source releases themselves record: `creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/` at 2.5, at 3.0 and its US and Swiss ports, and at 4.0. They were rendered through an adapter trained on Creative Commons music whose strictest licence travels with anything derived, so it travels with anything you make from a clip here, and the forty-one releases that music came from are credited release by release, deed by deed, on the article's page.

**The players on this page play a listening master, and that is the one thing here which is not the file the numbers were measured from.** The raw renders run from −19.65 to −13.29 LUFS integrated — 6.4 units, or about two notches on a fader — so playing twenty in a row means working the volume knob rather than comparing adapters. Each one therefore also has a mastered copy, and the mastered copy is what a player fetches: the render with **one constant gain applied and nothing else** — no limiter, no compression, no equalisation, no trimming, no re-encoding, the same 48 kHz sixteen-bit stereo WAV with the same number of samples, and its own fingerprint printed beside it. The gain is the smaller of two numbers: how far the clip sits from −16 LUFS, and how far its true peak sits from a −1 dBTP ceiling. Of the sixty-three, thirty-two land at −16 LUFS exactly, on gains of −2.71 to −0.13 dB. The other thirty-one are **left at their raw level** — eight of them at a gain of exactly zero, the rest trimmed by no more than −0.43 dB — because their peaks already sit at the engine's own −1 dB ceiling, so reaching −16 LUFS would have meant pushing them through it. The other way to do that is a limiter riding the gain, and a limiter would change the very thing you are here to judge; so nothing on this page is limited, and those clips stay between −19.65 and −16.09 LUFS. Every table below says, per clip, the gain it took and whether it reached −16. Both fingerprints ride beside every player — the raw render's first, the mastered file's second, and it is the mastered file the player fetches. The raw renders are untouched in `audio/` and in the article's data kit, and the article's own players stay raw: this page is the only place the master is served.

## Round one — the first listen {#round-one-the-first-listen}

A human operator's first listen — one of us — rendered 2026-08-31 between 03:01 and 03:04 UTC: two requests written in plain prose, sixty seconds each, 128 beats per minute, A minor, three renders per request — nothing added, our adapter at full strength, our adapter at 0.7. One of us, listening unblinded with the labels in view, preferred the untouched clip on both requests; the 0.7 renders were never ranked. This is the round the article's verdict rests on.

The requests below print exactly as they were sent in the untouched arm; every adapter arm prepends the name tag `mnml-shakedown, ` and changes nothing else.

> minimal techno, hypnotic rolling groove, analog drum machine, deep sub bass, sparse percussion, late night

> 🔊 **R1.1 — hypnotic rolling groove · nothing added** · raw render sha256 (first 16) `d6b62483885e02af` · listening master `e95081c7dff600e4`
>
> 🔊 **R1.2 — the same request and seed · the adapter at full strength** · raw `b1627a2f09727e89` · master `f594cb392ebc65ad`
>
> 🔊 **R1.3 — the same · the adapter at 0.7** · raw `3ce6690db1ce56df` · master `cea290d4267f904c`

*Each code is the first 16 characters of that file's sha256 — the raw render's, then the listening master's, which is the file the player plays; every clip on this page is AI-generated.*

| Clip | Request | Arm | Dial | Raw LUFS | Raw true peak dBTP | Raw loudness range | Raw sha16 | Mastered sha16 | Gain dB | Reached −16 | Rendered |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---:|---|---:|
| R1.1 | Hypnotic rolling groove | Nothing added | 0 | −14.74 | −0.78 | 2.7 | `d6b62483885e02af` | `e95081c7dff600e4` | −1.26 | Yes | 11.0 s |
| R1.2 | Hypnotic rolling groove | The adapter at full strength | 1.0 | −16.53 | −0.62 | 2.2 | `b1627a2f09727e89` | `f594cb392ebc65ad` | −0.38 | No | 11.0 s |
| R1.3 | Hypnotic rolling groove | The adapter at 0.7 | 0.7 | −16.85 | −0.98 | 2.9 | `3ce6690db1ce56df` | `cea290d4267f904c` | −0.02 | No | 10.9 s |

> minimal techno, dubby stabs, four on the floor, clicks and glitch percussion, warehouse haze

> 🔊 **R1.4 — dubby stabs · nothing added** · raw `b3f55e8eb66c5d24` · master `963f1d3937a54eb3`
>
> 🔊 **R1.5 — the same request and seed · the adapter at full strength** · raw `2cef5f056c7b4b10` · master `a1cc39e6b3e1e919`
>
> 🔊 **R1.6 — the same · the adapter at 0.7** · raw `f931809a479ed6ee` · master `758e2bef30294e64`

| Clip | Request | Arm | Dial | Raw LUFS | Raw true peak dBTP | Raw loudness range | Raw sha16 | Mastered sha16 | Gain dB | Reached −16 | Rendered |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---:|---|---:|
| R1.4 | Dubby stabs | Nothing added | 0 | −17.71 | −1.00 | 6.5 | `b3f55e8eb66c5d24` | `963f1d3937a54eb3` | +0.00 | No | 11.0 s |
| R1.5 | Dubby stabs | The adapter at full strength | 1.0 | −19.55 | −0.94 | 4.6 | `2cef5f056c7b4b10` | `a1cc39e6b3e1e919` | −0.06 | No | 11.0 s |
| R1.6 | Dubby stabs | The adapter at 0.7 | 0.7 | −18.32 | −1.00 | 5.5 | `f931809a479ed6ee` | `758e2bef30294e64` | +0.00 | No | 11.0 s |

## Round two — the caption-shape probe {#round-two-the-caption-shape-probe}

The probe that followed the same night, rendered 2026-08-31 between 03:23 and 03:27 UTC: the two cheapest explanations for the verdict, tested with seven more sixty-second clips at the same pins. The dial turned down to 0.5 and 0.35; the pass-five checkpoint instead of the shipped pass ten; and two new requests written in the shape the adapter was trained on — `minimal techno, <title>` — with invented titles nothing could have memorised. The finding the article reports: the loudness drop of round one tracked the shape of the caption, not the adapter.

The requests below print exactly as they were sent in the untouched arm; every adapter arm prepends the name tag `mnml-shakedown, ` and changes nothing else.

> minimal techno, Schwerelos (original mix)

> 🔊 **R2.1 — Schwerelos (original mix) · nothing added** · raw `e71b8c65156cb10c` · master `376119584c897c6b`
>
> 🔊 **R2.2 — the same request and seed · the adapter at full strength** · raw `0327d06999713dce` · master `8109e7a69b3bde72`
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> 🔊 **R2.3 — the same · the adapter at 0.5** · raw `bf3bb89431fa4e6b` · master `1e039b185a169509`
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> 🔊 **R2.4 — the same · the adapter at 0.35** · raw `32fed7511416eb78` · master `75a4273cc3e6c39e`
>
> 🔊 **R2.5 — the same · the pass-five checkpoint at full strength** · raw `d69a459f9d49a159` · master `10feb866a1b54641`

| Clip | Request | Arm | Dial | Raw LUFS | Raw true peak dBTP | Raw loudness range | Raw sha16 | Mastered sha16 | Gain dB | Reached −16 | Rendered |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---:|---|---:|
| R2.1 | Schwerelos (original mix) | Nothing added | 0 | −14.01 | −1.00 | 3.0 | `e71b8c65156cb10c` | `376119584c897c6b` | −1.99 | Yes | 10.9 s |
| R2.2 | Schwerelos (original mix) | The adapter at full strength | 1.0 | −14.23 | −0.82 | 2.3 | `0327d06999713dce` | `8109e7a69b3bde72` | −1.77 | Yes | 10.9 s |
| R2.3 | Schwerelos (original mix) | The adapter at 0.5 | 0.5 | −14.34 | −0.98 | 2.1 | `bf3bb89431fa4e6b` | `1e039b185a169509` | −1.66 | Yes | 10.9 s |
| R2.4 | Schwerelos (original mix) | The adapter at 0.35 | 0.35 | −13.80 | −0.97 | 2.5 | `32fed7511416eb78` | `75a4273cc3e6c39e` | −2.20 | Yes | 10.9 s |
| R2.5 | Schwerelos (original mix) | The pass-five checkpoint at full strength | 1.0 | −14.75 | −0.89 | 2.3 | `d69a459f9d49a159` | `10feb866a1b54641` | −1.25 | Yes | 10.9 s |

> minimal techno, Basement Loop 7

> 🔊 **R2.6 — Basement Loop 7 · nothing added** · raw `5889ca518f8b726e` · master `3d2820364c3e81ae`
>
> 🔊 **R2.7 — the same request and seed · the adapter at full strength** · raw `0cecc9a342b5bc04` · master `14aad8e4b22a4191`

| Clip | Request | Arm | Dial | Raw LUFS | Raw true peak dBTP | Raw loudness range | Raw sha16 | Mastered sha16 | Gain dB | Reached −16 | Rendered |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---:|---|---:|
| R2.6 | Basement Loop 7 | Nothing added | 0 | −18.25 | −0.96 | 7.4 | `5889ca518f8b726e` | `3d2820364c3e81ae` | −0.04 | No | 10.9 s |
| R2.7 | Basement Loop 7 | The adapter at full strength | 1.0 | −17.76 | −1.00 | 14.7 | `0cecc9a342b5bc04` | `14aad8e4b22a4191` | +0.00 | No | 11.0 s |

## Round three — the one-artist control {#round-three-the-one-artist-control}

The control, rendered 2026-08-31 between 19:48 and 19:50 UTC: a second adapter trained by the identical recipe on one artist's ten releases instead of a tag, played on round two's two corpus-shaped requests against the very same untouched clips as round two — byte-identical, so the comparison is fair; those two base clips are R2.1 and R2.6 above and are not repeated here. Both pairs have since been ruled, on 2026-09-03, by the one listener on record, unblinded and with the labels in view. On `Basement Loop 7`: “the non-adapter version sounds way better, the adapter version adds in weird clippy hi hats”. On `Schwerelos (original mix)` the two were “pretty similar”, and then: “the adapter one might actually be slightly better though” — the adapter in this round being the one-artist control, not ours.

The requests below print exactly as they were sent in the untouched arm; the control's two renders prepend the name tag `fm-control, ` and change nothing else.

> minimal techno, Schwerelos (original mix)

> minimal techno, Basement Loop 7

> 🔊 **R3.1 — Schwerelos (original mix) · the one-artist adapter at full strength** · raw `5db77e0345b032c5` · master `bb6adbf726e6b1d8`
>
> 🔊 **R3.2 — Basement Loop 7 · the one-artist adapter at full strength** · raw `f0ebb8d258039c5c` · master `8a98d6c682ae1027`

| Clip | Request | Arm | Dial | Raw LUFS | Raw true peak dBTP | Raw loudness range | Raw sha16 | Mastered sha16 | Gain dB | Reached −16 | Rendered |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---:|---|---:|
| R3.1 | Schwerelos (original mix) | The one-artist adapter at full strength | 1.0 | −14.32 | −1.00 | 2.9 | `5db77e0345b032c5` | `bb6adbf726e6b1d8` | −1.68 | Yes | 11.0 s |
| R3.2 | Basement Loop 7 | The one-artist adapter at full strength | 1.0 | −16.34 | −0.96 | 7.1 | `f0ebb8d258039c5c` | `8a98d6c682ae1027` | −0.04 | No | 10.9 s |

## Round four — twelve requests, four ways {#round-four-twelve-requests-four-ways}

The due-diligence round, rendered 2026-09-03 between 03:13 and 03:30 UTC after one of us asked whether the verdict depended on the request: twelve requests written in advance, from the corpus's own genre outward, each with its own tempo, A minor throughout, thirty seconds each, and each rendered four ways on one seed — nothing added, our adapter at half strength, our adapter at full, the one-artist adapter at full. A thirty-second render is a different composition from a sixty-second one, not a shorter version; read these against round one by request, not by ear-memory of the earlier clips. Loudness figures under each player are absolute; the article's table gives them as changes against each request's untouched render.

Each request below prints exactly as it was sent in the untouched arm; our two arms prepend the name tag `mnml-shakedown, `, the one-artist control's arm prepends `fm-control, `, and nothing else moves.

> minimal techno, hypnotic rolling groove, analog drum machine, deep sub bass, sparse percussion, late night

> 🔊 **R4.P01 — minimal techno · dial at 0** · raw `73b95c6b7a32c9d5` · master `c3f5aa0550ab0324`
>
> 🔊 **R4.P01 — minimal techno · our adapter at 0.5** · raw `87d9845d9dad2764` · master `3eac04dd951c20d5`
>
> 🔊 **R4.P01 — minimal techno · our adapter at 1.0** · raw `0f3a8892cf1eb960` · master `008889a374578980`
>
> 🔊 **R4.P01 — minimal techno · the one-artist adapter at 1.0** · raw `d7e2fb83607b8341` · master `e8e4ee94e7595846`

| Clip | Request | Arm | Dial | Raw LUFS | Raw true peak dBTP | Raw loudness range | Raw sha16 | Mastered sha16 | Gain dB | Reached −16 | Rendered |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---:|---|---:|
| R4.P01 | Minimal techno | Dial at 0 | 0 | −18.40 | −1.00 | 7.0 | `73b95c6b7a32c9d5` | `c3f5aa0550ab0324` | +0.00 | No | 11.5 s |
| R4.P01 | Minimal techno | Our adapter at 0.5 | 0.5 | −17.45 | −1.00 | 2.2 | `87d9845d9dad2764` | `3eac04dd951c20d5` | +0.00 | No | 10.8 s |
| R4.P01 | Minimal techno | Our adapter at 1.0 | 1.0 | −17.24 | −0.95 | 5.1 | `0f3a8892cf1eb960` | `008889a374578980` | −0.05 | No | 10.8 s |
| R4.P01 | Minimal techno | The one-artist adapter at 1.0 | 1.0 | −16.95 | −0.57 | 2.2 | `d7e2fb83607b8341` | `e8e4ee94e7595846` | −0.43 | No | 10.9 s |

> dub techno, deep chord stabs drenched in delay, soft muffled kick, tape hiss, slow underwater swing

> 🔊 **R4.P02 — dub techno · dial at 0** · raw `6f0b2d81c610b7e9` · master `acefde335929db2b`
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> 🔊 **R4.P02 — dub techno · our adapter at 0.5** · raw `1dff1accdc243042` · master `6cd853b84100e895`
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> 🔊 **R4.P02 — dub techno · our adapter at 1.0** · raw `31f288228c7aab86` · master `a8a8e0d5840cd46f`
>
> 🔊 **R4.P02 — dub techno · the one-artist adapter at 1.0** · raw `099d71b3fcdb1390` · master `97f0662948773a82`

| Clip | Request | Arm | Dial | Raw LUFS | Raw true peak dBTP | Raw loudness range | Raw sha16 | Mastered sha16 | Gain dB | Reached −16 | Rendered |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---:|---|---:|
| R4.P02 | Dub techno | Dial at 0 | 0 | −17.36 | −0.80 | 5.9 | `6f0b2d81c610b7e9` | `acefde335929db2b` | −0.20 | No | 10.8 s |
| R4.P02 | Dub techno | Our adapter at 0.5 | 0.5 | −19.65 | −1.00 | 3.0 | `1dff1accdc243042` | `6cd853b84100e895` | +0.00 | No | 10.8 s |
| R4.P02 | Dub techno | Our adapter at 1.0 | 1.0 | −19.28 | −0.95 | 3.4 | `31f288228c7aab86` | `a8a8e0d5840cd46f` | −0.05 | No | 10.8 s |
| R4.P02 | Dub techno | The one-artist adapter at 1.0 | 1.0 | −19.29 | −1.00 | 3.5 | `099d71b3fcdb1390` | `97f0662948773a82` | +0.00 | No | 10.8 s |

> detroit techno, soaring string pads, crisp 909 drums, warm bassline, futuristic and soulful

> 🔊 **R4.P03 — Detroit techno · dial at 0** · raw `78cb1d9004b59540` · master `31e6f92e54f7e81c`
>
> 🔊 **R4.P03 — Detroit techno · our adapter at 0.5** · raw `eee1c84becedeb42` · master `58f7fff90a4e5186`
>
> 🔊 **R4.P03 — Detroit techno · our adapter at 1.0** · raw `db1536c8fa3f5a24` · master `403be698b2220745`
>
> 🔊 **R4.P03 — Detroit techno · the one-artist adapter at 1.0** · raw `9c67020ac1f50a3e` · master `f788ea94d8046e0a`

| Clip | Request | Arm | Dial | Raw LUFS | Raw true peak dBTP | Raw loudness range | Raw sha16 | Mastered sha16 | Gain dB | Reached −16 | Rendered |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---:|---|---:|
| R4.P03 | Detroit techno | Dial at 0 | 0 | −13.80 | −0.95 | 7.4 | `78cb1d9004b59540` | `31e6f92e54f7e81c` | −2.20 | Yes | 10.8 s |
| R4.P03 | Detroit techno | Our adapter at 0.5 | 0.5 | −13.59 | −0.99 | 6.1 | `eee1c84becedeb42` | `58f7fff90a4e5186` | −2.41 | Yes | 10.8 s |
| R4.P03 | Detroit techno | Our adapter at 1.0 | 1.0 | −13.52 | −0.98 | 6.5 | `db1536c8fa3f5a24` | `403be698b2220745` | −2.48 | Yes | 10.8 s |
| R4.P03 | Detroit techno | The one-artist adapter at 1.0 | 1.0 | −14.62 | −0.92 | 2.8 | `9c67020ac1f50a3e` | `f788ea94d8046e0a` | −1.38 | Yes | 10.9 s |

> melodic techno, driving arpeggiated synth, big reverb, emotive chord progression, steady four on the floor

> 🔊 **R4.P04 — melodic techno · dial at 0** · raw `d873b9da71e3b287` · master `2c81ef844512cf37`
>
> 🔊 **R4.P04 — melodic techno · our adapter at 0.5** · raw `9e1b197518397c63` · master `9b723657d4b9d623`
>
> 🔊 **R4.P04 — melodic techno · our adapter at 1.0** · raw `451846e92b543bbb` · master `1cd1dc6919f03941`
>
> 🔊 **R4.P04 — melodic techno · the one-artist adapter at 1.0** · raw `bf16a7784461da29` · master `35408c64112b65b9`

| Clip | Request | Arm | Dial | Raw LUFS | Raw true peak dBTP | Raw loudness range | Raw sha16 | Mastered sha16 | Gain dB | Reached −16 | Rendered |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---:|---|---:|
| R4.P04 | Melodic techno | Dial at 0 | 0 | −18.41 | −0.92 | 6.4 | `d873b9da71e3b287` | `2c81ef844512cf37` | −0.08 | No | 10.8 s |
| R4.P04 | Melodic techno | Our adapter at 0.5 | 0.5 | −17.98 | −0.99 | 4.6 | `9e1b197518397c63` | `9b723657d4b9d623` | −0.01 | No | 10.9 s |
| R4.P04 | Melodic techno | Our adapter at 1.0 | 1.0 | −16.51 | −0.99 | 5.0 | `451846e92b543bbb` | `1cd1dc6919f03941` | −0.01 | No | 11.1 s |
| R4.P04 | Melodic techno | The one-artist adapter at 1.0 | 1.0 | −16.81 | −0.63 | 3.9 | `bf16a7784461da29` | `35408c64112b65b9` | −0.37 | No | 10.9 s |

> hard techno, distorted rumbling kick, industrial percussion, relentless, dark warehouse

> 🔊 **R4.P05 — hard techno · dial at 0** · raw `9097c045261f4174` · master `37872870fb10bf0f`
>
> 🔊 **R4.P05 — hard techno · our adapter at 0.5** · raw `6708b12356dfb30f` · master `93face7925c66b16`
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> 🔊 **R4.P05 — hard techno · our adapter at 1.0** · raw `a1526f4794012ff9` · master `2c8eba33149ea5ba`
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> 🔊 **R4.P05 — hard techno · the one-artist adapter at 1.0** · raw `ee305a037e77008d` · master `8b23799d4b82980d`

| Clip | Request | Arm | Dial | Raw LUFS | Raw true peak dBTP | Raw loudness range | Raw sha16 | Mastered sha16 | Gain dB | Reached −16 | Rendered |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---:|---|---:|
| R4.P05 | Hard techno | Dial at 0 | 0 | −17.52 | −0.99 | 6.3 | `9097c045261f4174` | `37872870fb10bf0f` | −0.01 | No | 10.8 s |
| R4.P05 | Hard techno | Our adapter at 0.5 | 0.5 | −17.78 | −0.99 | 7.5 | `6708b12356dfb30f` | `93face7925c66b16` | −0.01 | No | 10.8 s |
| R4.P05 | Hard techno | Our adapter at 1.0 | 1.0 | −15.17 | −1.00 | 4.6 | `a1526f4794012ff9` | `2c8eba33149ea5ba` | −0.83 | Yes | 11.6 s |
| R4.P05 | Hard techno | The one-artist adapter at 1.0 | 1.0 | −14.96 | −0.99 | 4.9 | `ee305a037e77008d` | `8b23799d4b82980d` | −1.04 | Yes | 10.8 s |

> acid techno, squelching 303 bassline, resonant filter sweeps, tight drum machine, raw and hypnotic

> 🔊 **R4.P06 — acid techno · dial at 0** · raw `146570c9605ac836` · master `170fee857869b152`
>
> 🔊 **R4.P06 — acid techno · our adapter at 0.5** · raw `92f6dd66cc2f722a` · master `5d13606a32b9fe30`
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> 🔊 **R4.P06 — acid techno · our adapter at 1.0** · raw `67a63b886fcb20a9` · master `50f3591ced9fa8b4`
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> 🔊 **R4.P06 — acid techno · the one-artist adapter at 1.0** · raw `e8f5d56c7fd863c3` · master `4aa8a31354b82486`

| Clip | Request | Arm | Dial | Raw LUFS | Raw true peak dBTP | Raw loudness range | Raw sha16 | Mastered sha16 | Gain dB | Reached −16 | Rendered |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---:|---|---:|
| R4.P06 | Acid techno | Dial at 0 | 0 | −15.85 | −0.99 | 7.6 | `146570c9605ac836` | `170fee857869b152` | −0.15 | Yes | 10.8 s |
| R4.P06 | Acid techno | Our adapter at 0.5 | 0.5 | −14.59 | −0.99 | 4.0 | `92f6dd66cc2f722a` | `5d13606a32b9fe30` | −1.41 | Yes | 10.8 s |
| R4.P06 | Acid techno | Our adapter at 1.0 | 1.0 | −14.45 | −0.99 | 3.7 | `67a63b886fcb20a9` | `50f3591ced9fa8b4` | −1.55 | Yes | 10.9 s |
| R4.P06 | Acid techno | The one-artist adapter at 1.0 | 1.0 | −14.28 | −0.99 | 4.8 | `e8f5d56c7fd863c3` | `4aa8a31354b82486` | −1.72 | Yes | 10.9 s |

> deep house, warm rhodes chords, shuffled hi-hats, smooth sub bass, soulful and laid back

> 🔊 **R4.P07 — deep house · dial at 0** · raw `5a277ea925d97650` · master `7fa0aa9d58aac7e9`
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> 🔊 **R4.P07 — deep house · our adapter at 0.5** · raw `86f238690622efee` · master `42d91968e0bfbfa1`
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> 🔊 **R4.P07 — deep house · our adapter at 1.0** · raw `2ef2453cb909096a` · master `afd410cba630680e`
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> 🔊 **R4.P07 — deep house · the one-artist adapter at 1.0** · raw `6ec9148037d678ce` · master `19e0c5dd1f167c16`

| Clip | Request | Arm | Dial | Raw LUFS | Raw true peak dBTP | Raw loudness range | Raw sha16 | Mastered sha16 | Gain dB | Reached −16 | Rendered |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---:|---|---:|
| R4.P07 | Deep house | Dial at 0 | 0 | −16.03 | −0.94 | 3.2 | `5a277ea925d97650` | `7fa0aa9d58aac7e9` | −0.06 | No | 10.8 s |
| R4.P07 | Deep house | Our adapter at 0.5 | 0.5 | −16.92 | −0.89 | 2.7 | `86f238690622efee` | `42d91968e0bfbfa1` | −0.11 | No | 10.8 s |
| R4.P07 | Deep house | Our adapter at 1.0 | 1.0 | −16.75 | −1.00 | 2.5 | `2ef2453cb909096a` | `afd410cba630680e` | +0.00 | No | 10.8 s |
| R4.P07 | Deep house | The one-artist adapter at 1.0 | 1.0 | −16.62 | −0.84 | 1.9 | `6ec9148037d678ce` | `19e0c5dd1f167c16` | −0.16 | No | 10.9 s |

> tech house, chunky rolling bassline, tight clap, minimal percussion fills, groovy and punchy

> 🔊 **R4.P08 — tech house · dial at 0** · raw `62b2487333bbd87a` · master `bfabcb6310f472ae`
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> 🔊 **R4.P08 — tech house · our adapter at 0.5** · raw `7608e28521268852` · master `a0237131d601c872`
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> 🔊 **R4.P08 — tech house · our adapter at 1.0** · raw `c6d5c05f2f7cb544` · master `3b4211b47ea998a7`
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> 🔊 **R4.P08 — tech house · the one-artist adapter at 1.0** · raw `ae5a1f4619d3873c` · master `3bb0bd92fed07819`

| Clip | Request | Arm | Dial | Raw LUFS | Raw true peak dBTP | Raw loudness range | Raw sha16 | Mastered sha16 | Gain dB | Reached −16 | Rendered |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---:|---|---:|
| R4.P08 | Tech house | Dial at 0 | 0 | −16.44 | −0.90 | 1.8 | `62b2487333bbd87a` | `bfabcb6310f472ae` | −0.10 | No | 10.8 s |
| R4.P08 | Tech house | Our adapter at 0.5 | 0.5 | −16.59 | −0.97 | 1.4 | `7608e28521268852` | `a0237131d601c872` | −0.03 | No | 10.8 s |
| R4.P08 | Tech house | Our adapter at 1.0 | 1.0 | −16.67 | −0.82 | 1.4 | `c6d5c05f2f7cb544` | `3b4211b47ea998a7` | −0.18 | No | 10.8 s |
| R4.P08 | Tech house | The one-artist adapter at 1.0 | 1.0 | −15.87 | −0.91 | 1.6 | `ae5a1f4619d3873c` | `3bb0bd92fed07819` | −0.13 | Yes | 10.9 s |

> disco house, filtered disco loop, live strings and brass stabs, funky bass guitar, joyful

> 🔊 **R4.P09 — disco house · dial at 0** · raw `e166e8c7657a8866` · master `f0e35ef055baf86e`
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> 🔊 **R4.P09 — disco house · our adapter at 0.5** · raw `072e6e5a5c0d0353` · master `250c39881dcc6c2c`
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> 🔊 **R4.P09 — disco house · our adapter at 1.0** · raw `b8631eb15cbdfd03` · master `83cf45c61fec4d34`
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> 🔊 **R4.P09 — disco house · the one-artist adapter at 1.0** · raw `369938bc92da2ae2` · master `fc6ba4b4bb84d5de`

| Clip | Request | Arm | Dial | Raw LUFS | Raw true peak dBTP | Raw loudness range | Raw sha16 | Mastered sha16 | Gain dB | Reached −16 | Rendered |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---:|---|---:|
| R4.P09 | Disco house | Dial at 0 | 0 | −14.70 | −1.00 | 7.3 | `e166e8c7657a8866` | `f0e35ef055baf86e` | −1.30 | Yes | 10.8 s |
| R4.P09 | Disco house | Our adapter at 0.5 | 0.5 | −13.90 | −0.99 | 5.8 | `072e6e5a5c0d0353` | `250c39881dcc6c2c` | −2.10 | Yes | 10.8 s |
| R4.P09 | Disco house | Our adapter at 1.0 | 1.0 | −14.12 | −0.97 | 5.3 | `b8631eb15cbdfd03` | `83cf45c61fec4d34` | −1.88 | Yes | 10.8 s |
| R4.P09 | Disco house | The one-artist adapter at 1.0 | 1.0 | −13.33 | −0.98 | 5.5 | `369938bc92da2ae2` | `fc6ba4b4bb84d5de` | −2.67 | Yes | 10.9 s |

> progressive house, long atmospheric build, plucked synth melody, sidechained pads, euphoric drop

> 🔊 **R4.P10 — progressive house · dial at 0** · raw `cf0dde2b4039dc4c` · master `c024aa5bc34d293b`
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> 🔊 **R4.P10 — progressive house · our adapter at 0.5** · raw `adb9a32cc46f6a0d` · master `9c7f9a8eafc20201`
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> 🔊 **R4.P10 — progressive house · our adapter at 1.0** · raw `d260673d98b2348e` · master `5ee7f467255fc76a`
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> 🔊 **R4.P10 — progressive house · the one-artist adapter at 1.0** · raw `e55e3f1f406357d3` · master `c30feef42a2a3f14`

| Clip | Request | Arm | Dial | Raw LUFS | Raw true peak dBTP | Raw loudness range | Raw sha16 | Mastered sha16 | Gain dB | Reached −16 | Rendered |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---:|---|---:|
| R4.P10 | Progressive house | Dial at 0 | 0 | −13.44 | −1.00 | 3.4 | `cf0dde2b4039dc4c` | `c024aa5bc34d293b` | −2.56 | Yes | 10.8 s |
| R4.P10 | Progressive house | Our adapter at 0.5 | 0.5 | −13.74 | −1.00 | 4.4 | `adb9a32cc46f6a0d` | `9c7f9a8eafc20201` | −2.26 | Yes | 10.9 s |
| R4.P10 | Progressive house | Our adapter at 1.0 | 1.0 | −14.27 | −0.95 | 4.3 | `d260673d98b2348e` | `5ee7f467255fc76a` | −1.73 | Yes | 10.8 s |
| R4.P10 | Progressive house | The one-artist adapter at 1.0 | 1.0 | −14.23 | −0.98 | 4.7 | `e55e3f1f406357d3` | `c30feef42a2a3f14` | −1.77 | Yes | 10.8 s |

> electro breakbeat, syncopated broken drums, robotic bass synth, vocoder stabs, retro futuristic

> 🔊 **R4.P11 — electro breaks · dial at 0** · raw `b575b11402d4bd9a` · master `8575631ae3989608`
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> 🔊 **R4.P11 — electro breaks · our adapter at 0.5** · raw `16dbd675c50ae6c5` · master `b678b531843111da`
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> 🔊 **R4.P11 — electro breaks · our adapter at 1.0** · raw `4efbeafbe8dcc3c4` · master `96823b2f567c9107`
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> 🔊 **R4.P11 — electro breaks · the one-artist adapter at 1.0** · raw `d65e8464da7a5e10` · master `a8fa372147f47609`

| Clip | Request | Arm | Dial | Raw LUFS | Raw true peak dBTP | Raw loudness range | Raw sha16 | Mastered sha16 | Gain dB | Reached −16 | Rendered |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---:|---|---:|
| R4.P11 | Electro breaks | Dial at 0 | 0 | −15.98 | −0.60 | 2.3 | `b575b11402d4bd9a` | `8575631ae3989608` | −0.40 | No | 10.8 s |
| R4.P11 | Electro breaks | Our adapter at 0.5 | 0.5 | −14.69 | −0.63 | 2.3 | `16dbd675c50ae6c5` | `b678b531843111da` | −1.31 | Yes | 10.8 s |
| R4.P11 | Electro breaks | Our adapter at 1.0 | 1.0 | −14.96 | −0.91 | 5.5 | `4efbeafbe8dcc3c4` | `96823b2f567c9107` | −1.04 | Yes | 10.8 s |
| R4.P11 | Electro breaks | The one-artist adapter at 1.0 | 1.0 | −16.47 | −0.72 | 4.6 | `d65e8464da7a5e10` | `a8fa372147f47609` | −0.28 | No | 10.8 s |

> uplifting trance, supersaw lead melody, huge breakdown, pumping kick, euphoric festival energy

> 🔊 **R4.P12 — uplifting trance · dial at 0** · raw `e181082e09a54104` · master `d9fccabcadb14fd7`
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> 🔊 **R4.P12 — uplifting trance · our adapter at 0.5** · raw `934ca94c4a23b26d` · master `929057ecbc267d26`
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> 🔊 **R4.P12 — uplifting trance · our adapter at 1.0** · raw `87106c1fc57b6299` · master `e76de48f70a2d831`
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> 🔊 **R4.P12 — uplifting trance · the one-artist adapter at 1.0** · raw `5244e05bcbdab2bc` · master `56d54e9fdb9bc52b`

| Clip | Request | Arm | Dial | Raw LUFS | Raw true peak dBTP | Raw loudness range | Raw sha16 | Mastered sha16 | Gain dB | Reached −16 | Rendered |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---:|---|---:|
| R4.P12 | Uplifting trance | Dial at 0 | 0 | −14.13 | −0.99 | 3.0 | `e181082e09a54104` | `d9fccabcadb14fd7` | −1.87 | Yes | 10.8 s |
| R4.P12 | Uplifting trance | Our adapter at 0.5 | 0.5 | −13.29 | −0.69 | 3.6 | `934ca94c4a23b26d` | `929057ecbc267d26` | −2.71 | Yes | 10.8 s |
| R4.P12 | Uplifting trance | Our adapter at 1.0 | 1.0 | −14.46 | −1.00 | 3.1 | `87106c1fc57b6299` | `e76de48f70a2d831` | −1.54 | Yes | 10.9 s |
| R4.P12 | Uplifting trance | The one-artist adapter at 1.0 | 1.0 | −14.03 | −1.00 | 2.2 | `5244e05bcbdab2bc` | `56d54e9fdb9bc52b` | −1.97 | Yes | 10.9 s |

## What to listen for {#what-to-listen-for}

There is no wrong thing to notice. Three things worth listening for, in the order the article found them: whether the adapter's clip has a floor — a kick and a bass that hold the room — or has lost it; whether anything in the clip comes and goes, which is what a doubled loudness range sounds like; and whether the one-artist control's clip sounds like a different hand than ours, or the same model wearing a different tag. A fourth, measured after the fact and published rather than tidied, because this is the page where you can actually hear it: none of the arc's sixty-five raw renders exceeds the engine's −1 dB ceiling, but eighteen of them carry flat-topped stretches — runs of samples pinned at the peak — untouched renders included and the hard techno request worst of all. That is the model's own ceiling, scaled down afterwards by the engine's normalisation, so distortion you hear is the model's rather than the adapter's; the peak and flat-factor rows for all sixty-five are in the article's data kit, one line per render. As for preference: the one listen on record preferred the untouched clip on both of round one's requests, unblinded and with the labels in view, once, and again on one of round three's two pairs; on round three's other pair the same listener heard the two as similar and then leaned very slightly the other way, to the control. Nothing else here has been ruled on by any ear. If yours says something different, the article would like to know.

## How to check these clips {#how-to-check-these-clips}

Every file in `audio/` is the exact render that was measured: copied, never re-encoded, never normalised, never re-cut. Every file in `audio/master/` is that same render with one level change and nothing else, and the page prints both fingerprints, in that order, beside every player. The manifest beside the audio carries every file's full sha256, one `sha256sum -c` line per file; the README beside it carries each file's byte length and the render it was copied from. The listening masters have a manifest of their own, `audio/master/MANIFEST.sha256`, in the same one-line-per-file shape, and `audio/master/master-records.json` beside it carries the whole recipe and, for every clip, the raw file's sha256 and the mastered file's, the loudness and true peak measured before and after, the constant gain in dB and the rule that chose it, and whether the clip reached the common level or was held at the ceiling: two directories, two manifests, two fingerprints per player. The arithmetic, because the counts differ and a reader deserves to know why: the four rounds rendered sixty-six clips, of which one — round four's forty-ninth — is a byte-identical repeat of its own first untouched render, kept in the records as the determinism receipt and not played here. That leaves sixty-five clip slots, and round three's two untouched renders came out byte-identical to round two's, so they are registered once under their round-two names and round three points back at them rather than serving the same bytes twice: sixty-three files, sixty-three players. The article's data kit carries the request payloads verbatim, the render records with every number printed here, and the fingerprints that tie each player to its file. If a number here disagrees with the kit, the kit wins and this page is wrong.

## Who ran this, and thanks {#who-ran-this-and-thanks}

The same small team and fleet of AI agents as the article, on the same machines, and the credits are [Ten Minutes with Living Artists](/ten-minutes-with-living-artists/)'s: the forty-one releases and their licences, the model, the trainer and the tools are all named there in full, deed by deed, because on this arc the credits are not a courtesy but the licence — [how that works](/how-we-work/) is next door, and the [licence ledger](/licences/) carries the model's row.

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