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RE: Video: The Distortion of Sound...

If you believe in "perfect sound, forever" then there is simply no point in arguing with you.

I have done lots of downsamplings from hi-res to 44/16 and in most cases there is a noticeable degradation in sound in one form or another, depending on how this is done (the specific anti-alias filter chosen). This is often the case when the original (e.g. 88/24) comes from a digitization of a cassette tape master. (These are direct copies of an original R-R master.)

Most first rate mastering engineers who work with acoustic music can easily hear differences between various digital formats. Here's how you tell whether these people are BSing or not: you listen to their recordings. If they are uniformly good then the chances are excellent that they do not subscribe to the 44/16 dogma. If they accept that 44/16 is good enough they are on a path of $$$ and not sonic excellence and it shows in their products.


Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar

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