I am sure they had a reason to remove the samples. Any links/pointers to where you posted them?
I give you an example of their over the line zeal. One of their diehard members challenged me on transparency of MP3 on an audio forum (not HA). I told him that it could not achieve such. He said it would in the case of LAME MP3 encoder. I showed him the graph from HA forum's own Wiki saying otherwise:
As you see, it shows that it never achieves 100% quality no matter how high you go in bit rate.
The poster storms away, goes to HA forum asking for help. You can read the saga here:
https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,90464.0.html
Their final answer? Delete the graph from the wiki!
The graph is correct and should have been left as is.
There is a fine line in these arguments where we look like crooks instead of providing the science. I want to make darn sure we never cross it as they did there....