pablolie wrote: > So sue me but I am perfectly happy with the SQ of the current 320k > stream. Plenty of listening tests out there show how hard it is to tell > the difference between 320k/CD quality/HighRez. There are preciously few > albums that are recorded with the required resolution, and even when > you're very familiar with them you have to listen to artifacts to be > able to tell, and that's with an amount of artificial focus for detail > that completely kills the fun of listening to the music. And anyone that > claims they can hear additional detail and "airiness" when listening to > the 24/192 version of Bill Evans' 1962 "Waltz for Debby" was dropped on > their head from a third floor as a baby, really. :-) > > I know I go against the fashionable "CD quality sucks" these days, but > the whole thing about the combined obsession of HighRez with vinyl > addiction to boot is laughable, sorry if I offend anyone. > > I spend time curating my collection and playlists, and little time > obsessing over whether the castanets in Roderiguez' Concierto de > Aranjuez sound ever so slightly more present in 320k or in the recently > discovered 1968 mastertape hidden in a deceased Decca executive's secret > closet... :-D
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