This really is driving a muscle/super car, or drinking expensive wine. At the end none of specs or tests matter. It is a form of art. If it makes the listener feel better (even if its just psychological) then its probably worth it.
cozzyd 2 minutes ago [-]
What a human centric view. I like my music to scare neighbor's pets.
dist-epoch 2 minutes ago [-]
The whole audiophile industry is built on stuff which doesn't make any sense
lokar 7 minutes ago [-]
I wonder how many people think that 24 bit audio encodes 50% “more”
recursive 3 minutes ago [-]
It is 50% more headroom above the noise floor in logarithmic decibels.
viccis 8 minutes ago [-]
If you try to use empiricism when it comes to certain groups audiophiles, you are going to be sorely reminded that it's basically the equivalent of healing crystals for a different type of person. 24/192 is useful for mixing/mastering, but completely unnecessary for the end product to distribute for listening.
evo 2 minutes ago [-]
24/192 is also great for digital synthesizers--if you're generating a waveform like a sawtooth that has theoretically instantaneous transitions, they can eat as much frequency as you can give them. Running at 44khz loses noticeable high-end content.
Most modern digital synths have already caught onto this and run internally at much higher sampling rates even if their output gets downsampled, but sometimes you run across a vintage plugin that runs at the host audio rate and working in a higher sampling rate is audible.
dijit 11 minutes ago [-]
huh...
So I guess the programmer equivalent is distributing .pdb's (or, symbols)
Blackthorn 25 seconds ago [-]
Pretty good analogy. Thing is though, the person who receives the 16-bit, 44.1khz music file can always upsample it to 192khz and not lose anything in the process (heck, lots of audio stuff oversamples internally to this level or beyond, for extra aliasing headroom!). I'm not sure about expansion from 16bit to 24bit though, downward expansion isn't necessarily perfect.
teach 12 minutes ago [-]
(2012)
metalman 6 minutes ago [-]
sheeesh , measly 24-bit/192kHz
of course it makes no sense, unless it is downloaded through low oxyegen wire, which somehow and unfathomably, must have been omited or forgotten.
b3orn 2 minutes ago [-]
If it has been transmitted via hollow-core fibres it will obviously sound hollow.
trashcluster 6 minutes ago [-]
24 bits is now ubiquitous and 32 bit is becoming the norm in recording studios.
lysace 3 minutes ago [-]
That use case is literally addressed in the first sentence.
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Most modern digital synths have already caught onto this and run internally at much higher sampling rates even if their output gets downsampled, but sometimes you run across a vintage plugin that runs at the host audio rate and working in a higher sampling rate is audible.
So I guess the programmer equivalent is distributing .pdb's (or, symbols)