Of course the placebo effect is significant, and I'm sure that there are more people who would pay extra for HD than there are who can hear the difference, either because they aren't particularly concentrating on the music at the time or because of limitations in their equipment, ears or listening environment. There are many of us who just like to feel that we are buying the 'best'.
Nevertheless, the CD standard has always been considered by many to be tight, both in bit depth (16 bit) and in sampling frequency (44.1 kHz). Reconstructing a 20kHz sine wave from 44.1kHz samples is quite a task, and it completely keels over as the sine wave approaches 22.05kHz! It has always struck me that most of the important and interesting information in a recording is the low-level information, and it uses only a few of those 16 bits! There are many who believe (me among them) that CD is never as good as the best vinyl listing experience, but it's convenient and serviceable much of the time. I buy SACDs when they are available and I'm interested in a higher technical quality than the old CD Red Book standard, but I'm not interested in buying Red Book recordings that have been upsampled so that the vendor can put 96/24 on the label. I think 96/24 files derived from analogue recordings might be worthwhile if they are done well. -- DennyL ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DennyL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88756 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
