I'm coming late to all these discussions, so forgive me if I'm covering old ground here.
As an engineer that has worked for many years in all sorts of fields involved in signal processing, I've found the difficulties with wide-band high resolution systems are mostly to do with non-linearities. I suspect that if people can actually hear a difference between wide bandwidth input vs. the same thing low-pass filtered - that we know shouldn't be audible - this is probably a non-linearity defect in either the reproduction equipment or receiving apparatus (i.e. the ears). Most likely the ears. In other words, those that think they've got 'golden ears' because they can hear a difference maybe shouldn't be too proud - it could well be because their ears are unusually non-linear, i.e. defective. It could, of course, be a non-linear defect in the (expensive) wide-bandwidth amplifier/speaker/listening environment combination being revealed with this new-fangled high-sample rate source material. That might be equally problematic.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ utgg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40900 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103537 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
