the rational consensus i have read is that while a very few people have hearing range that goes beyond 16/44, no human being can possibly resolve beyond 20/44. 44 gives you the best possible range of human hearing as established in innumerable tests, and provided to you by Nyquist. 20bits covers the extreme best possibly case of dynamic hearing capabilities.
there are some good tests online for those who want to be honest to themselves. my hearing goes from 35-16.5k, and i can just hear a dynamic range of <16, the 20 is wasted on me. it's the quiet passages that get you with age. and I listen to the simple test (no wide staging no depth stuff) with stellar headphones and a great headphone amplifier. and fail when it comes to the theoretical 20/44 optimal human hearing limit. ...pablo Server: Virtual Machine (on VMware Workstation 12) running Ubuntu 16.04 + LMS 7.9 System: SB Touch --optical->- Benchmark DAC2HGC --AnalysisPlus Oval Copper XLR->- NAD M22 Power Amp --AnalysisPlus Black Mesh Oval->- Totem Element Fire Other Rooms: 2x SB Boom; 1x SB Radio; 1x SB Classic-> NAD D7050 -> Totem DreamCatcher + Velodyne Minivee Sub Computer audio: workstation --USB->- audioengine D1 -> Grado PS500e/Shure 1540 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105717 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
