cliveb wrote: > IMHO he's regurgitated a number of dogmas loosely based on a distorted > understanding of the facts. > > And at the end he says he doesn't know why hi-res sounds better than CD, > when he has a trivial method of finding out. All he needs to do is take > one of his beloved hi-res files, whack it through a decent sample rate > converter (eg. SOX) to convert it to 16/44.1, and then ABX the two. > He'll find that he will be unable to tell the difference (at normal - or > indeed anything less than insane - listening levels). > > In a sense, this kind of audio journalism is more dangerous than the > sort written by the outright loonies, because it seems reasonable to the > rational but uninformed reader.
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