magiccarpetride;610132 Wrote: > In my extremely guarded and personal experience (which is, from what I > hear, protected by the Constitution as well as UNESCO), high definition > audio formats do bring noticeable improvement in the sound quality over > the red book format, but mostly with regards to offering 24 bit as > opposed to 16 bit depth. The sampling rate appears to matter less. For > example, while it gets very easy for me to discern between a 24 bit > FLAC and the same FLAC dithered down to 16 bit, I am having serious > difficulties discerning between the 24 bit/96 kHz FLAC and the same > FLAC downsampled to 24 bit/44.1 kHz.
I have to respect the fact that you did the experiment and reported your experience. But I am surprised at this. Considering a 16 bit DAC and assuming I have my volume control set to place -90.31dBFS at 0dB SPL (the threshold of human hearing), I still have 90dB above that for the peaks of music. Assuming that the r.m.s. level of the music averaged over a track is -14dBFS (assumes we are not a victim of the loudness wars), that would be at 76dB SPL. That would be a comfortable listening level, not too loud but well above the SPL of normal conversational speech. I think you would have to listen at pretty high volume levels to hear the difference between a 24 bit DAC and a good 16-bit DAC. -- dsdreamer ---------------------- "Dreamer, easy in the chair that really fits you..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dsdreamer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83976 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
