Awesome discussion guys! I must admit a lot of the science is over my head but great to read so many knowledgeable posts; clearly discussion an order of magnitude beyond much of the bickering over the last couple weeks.
At 40 years old now, my frequency threshold is around 17kHz. I've ABX'ed 24/96 songs downsampled to 16/44 through pretty reasonable hardware attached to my main computer (E-Mu0404USB --> Music Hall Ph25.2 headphone amp --> Sennheiser HD800) unsuccessfully. The more I test this out for myself, the less I'm tempted to buy any more 'hi-res' music. I really do hope the loudness war ends at some point to elevate the mastering job on more modern music as that is what seems to be the real 'quality limiting' piece these days. I suspect that much of the raving around hi-res music whether DVD-A or SACD has been the fact that they were often mastered at a higher level if the science is pretty clear that ears/brains are unlikely to experience an improvement just from the specs... -- Archimago ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93483 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
