The 2L test bench is there for fooling people.
“white glove” =
- pcm before remaster =>
- remastered pcm =>
- mqa of remastered pcm
On the 2L test bench you see 1 and 3 but never 2.
You can see that when you look at the “original resolution” column there’s a 24 bit mqa for what was a 16 bit master. And they call it “original resolution”… right.
Like always, mqa let people compare apples with oranges:
16 bit pcm with 24 bit mqas (that are 2.5x bigger in size).
You won’t find the 24 bit pcm (the high quality remaster) that was used to create the mqa from and which is the only format that makes comparisons valid.
Mqa doesn’t sound better, the remaster does but you won’t find it there.