I agree with TerryS on this (noting PL's point about dither). I don't think the evidence for the roughness of 16 bit CD sound is a subtle audio point. Listen to any recording of a string quartet when they play a quiet passage and the roughness of the sound is perfectly obvious. On some recordings, where they have recorded at a rather lower level than usual, the sound can be quite dreadful. A 'good' example of this is the Caliope recordings of the Beethoven Quartets played by the Talisch. The LPs sound fine - good, warm string tone; the CDs are so bad that you might have difficulty identifying the source as a string quartet. So I'm all for 24 bit delivered to the end user.
I'm also for higher sampling rates. One of the other failings of CD, compared to LP, is the poor quality of transients. Without over-sampling, CD delivers a frequency response flat to ~22 kHz and then a cliff edge. Imagine the filter you'd design to achieve that, and then consider the phase/frequency distortion that would occur. I doubt over-sampling removes these phase artefacts. -- Cape11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cape11's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13763 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85879 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
