.. She winced as the cable bit deeper into her flesh. He seethed "You stupid cow, keep still behind the stereo rack and switch the XLR connectors without making such a fuss. It's impossible to conduct an A-B test with you! .."
I am a bit amused that the topic quickly turned into universal condemnation of HiRez tracks established via a lab measurement... and not by a listening test. :-) Does that partially imply that -rationally- we should all be perfectly happy with an iPhone and a par of good earbuds and some well recorded 256k VBR music?? :-D One could make the point given the fact the person interpreting the files states (somewhat carefully) that at 320k he probably wouldn't have been sure if he measured a roll-off. Typically I say, let people do what they do and feed their own psycho-acoustic preferences. If it makes them happy, let 'em stack up 100ks worth of equipment and some voodoo unobtanium-enriched super-conductor cabling and hey, it's no beef of mine. People ought to chill and let each other chill. Then again, I have seen a guy storm off in disgust when he lost a gentleman's bet about his 450k system not sounding better -in fact, consensus was worse- than another gentleman's 25k system, to never be seen in the same wine bar again. On this HiRez thing, in general I don't see the point of 1960s analog tapes supposedly being taken out of a vault after 50 years (deterioration anyone?) and sampled at 48/384; when the studio originals prolly barely merit 192k MP3. I mean, I worship Bill Evans' "Waltz for Debby", and I *do* own a 320k MP3 rip from CD I made with my original, painful conversion run in 2005-2007 using dbPoweramp when Allmusic's database was patchy and you had to enter the entire info for many albums manually. (BTW I also FLAC'd it, but could never tell the difference). When it was offered online at 24/192 I went for the test. Sure, they cranked up the loudness some. But not a nuance more detail, in fact I seemed to prefer the original rip. The clinking glasses, the bass or piano aren't an ounce clearer. With that I am not saying I don't believe in some additional envelope beyond the 16/44 commandment that was seemingly burned into clay tablet in ancient times. But with some new recordings that are pristinely recorded, if I can get a 20/44 or 24/88 hey I will get it. Perhaps one magic day I'll tell myself I did hear the difference. :-) In the end - I am glad we have the choice between the different formats. ...pablo Server: Virtual Machine running Ubuntu 12.04 + LMS 7.7.3 on VMware Player System: SB Touch --optical->- Benchmark DAC2HGC --AnalysisPlus Oval Copper XLR->- Creek Destiny Power Amp --AnalysisPlus Black Mesh Oval->- KEF LS50 Other Rooms: 2x SB Boom; 1x SB Radio; 1x SB Classic-> MusicalFidelity M1PWR -> Totem DreamCatcher ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101068 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
