JezA;403598 Wrote: 
> Start with a contemporary high quality recording of known merit,  such
> as the last movement of Mozart Symphony 41 from Linn
> http://www.linnrecords.com/recording-mozart-symphonies.aspx - a
> multi-award winning recording. Download it in 16/44 and 24/96. Make
> sure you have the latest SC so that the 24/96 version is properly
> downsampled to your squeezebox. Listen to both versions. Which is more
> complex, intense, powerful? Which lets you follow more of the fugue as
> it flies round the orchestra? Which lets you differentiate the woodwind
> right inside the music?  It's nothing to do with more bass, or more
> treble. Just more!!!

i'll give that a go, but as i said: i have better than average hearing
for my age (measured), and i can't tell the difference between 24bit
and 16bit on totally first generation stuff i've recorded myself, of my
own band - all sorts of material.

and if you can hear above 17kHz, which is where the filters on 44kHz
equipment start to break down, i'll be very impressed. (have you tried
any kind of actual quantitative tests of single tones at listening
volumes around that frequency?)

now, digital effects processing: there are lots of good reasons to work
above 44kHz. but most decent effects do internal oversampling anyway, so
it's not really a valid point these days.


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