13 Dec
2015
13 Dec
'15
8:39 p.m.
On 12/13/2015 03:53 PM, Wenger Peter wrote:
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They do not want to discuss if sombody can hear it
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fake it!
"Of course I'm playing 96K.. Can't you hear it?" :)
Seriously, this 24/96 hype is not unlike selling gold-plated directional
power-cables to the audiophile community.
As opposed to those, there are some valid cases for increased bit-depth
or higher sample-rates. But end-user consumer audio, particularly in a
public space, is not one.
See the XIPH article linked by Emanuele: Unless you have suitable
transducers, power-amps and speakers, 96K will sound worse due to
harmonic distortions. Then again, in a room with people moving around
you likely won't hear those either...
2c,
robin