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RE: Article: 24/192kHz quality worse than 16/44.1.

"It wasn't scientific by any means... But let me start by saying she doesn't understand sampling rates or anything like that. So we have the same song in 44.1, 96 and 192 (Rebecca Pidgeon - Spanish Harlem). I would just change between the different songs and she could easily tell that the higher sampling rates definitely sounded better (she didn't know which songs were at which sample rates). Even between 96 and 192. She is also a musician (Flautist) so she has "good ears". But she only cares about how things sound. Not how it's sampled :)"

Firstly, Pidgeon's Spanish Harlem was not recorded native 24/192 (it says 128x oversampling A-to-D Mark III converter which doesn't say what base sampling rate, it's also 20-bits BTW) and I've never seen an official 24/192 release (only 24/88 and 24/176), therefore you should check how that 24/192 came to be - it could just be upsampled 24/176 or worse upsampled 16/44! If this is the case, theoretically this should be the worst sounding.

Secondly, you're comparing different masters. I have the Bob Katz 24/88 2009 version of the Raven as well as the original 1994 release. The 24/88 version is approximately 1dB louder plus whatever manipulation Bob thought was necessarily. The fact that you're likely comparing 2 different mastering jobs is very significant... Just because they have different sampling rates obviously does not make sampling rate significant.

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