Yeah, I understand the overall limited downside, especially with how the internet in the US is right now, with wildly different speeds and accessibility, it is not in any way practical at the moment or the near future. It can take a couple of hours to download 96/24 files on a decent DSL, and while they were talking about 24bit they didn't have any details on sample rate, so who knows what would actually happen. So it might not work mass market, let alone how the supposed benefits, which I can hear on carefully mastered material, won't make any difference in today's loudness wars quality except maybe they can compress more before clipping. Oh the joy of that thought. I'm not one of those who thinks there is no good new music, I love a lot of new music out there today, I just wish it could be mastered to sound better, not just louder. And I doubt getting iTunes store to go to 24bit would change that in any way. So in the end no, if it happens, there will be no benefit.
However, with all that said, he lost me with the "the noise floor is much lower, and you'll hear a hum in your amp when you turn up the volume" argument. I'm sorry if your amp hums when you turn it up, I say get a working amp not less resolving files. So after that really weak logic, I just found it hard to take him seriously. I mean really, too much dynamic range, too low a noise floor, really that's the best you could come up with for an argument against it? -- rayman1701 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rayman1701's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41326 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85879 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
