In Reply to: Hey Mark I have anecdotal data from listening posted by theob on December 7, 2012 at 12:30:22:
Hi Mark & theob,
Good to hear from guys who have given this a try.I agree that 24/48 is the sweet spot both from my own listening and I think this is backed up theoretically as well. With 24-bits, there's absolutely no way any of our current technology can reach this level of dynamic range (not like any music would ever need anything even close to this!), and 48kHz gives a good transition band above 20kHz audible frequency for the DAC to implement a reasonable filter.
As I said in previous posts, I believe if the CD standard were 20-bits (2 bytes + a nibble :-) / 50kHz, there would be little for anyone to complain about with any justification.
BTW: As for 192kHz, there's very few actual recordings out there of this quality IMO. In fact, I don't even know which microphones record sounds flat to 30kHz, much less represent the full spectrum of the performance that such a high resolution format would afford (we're not talking bat detectors here :-). Other than specialty audio like 2L, most of the other 192 stuff looks like DSD conversions or upsamples to me in the audio editor.
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- RE: Hey Mark I have anecdotal data from listening - Archimago 12/7/1212:40:19 12/7/12 (9)
- With 24-bits, no way any current technology can reach this - hfavandepas 13:26:45 12/7/12 (8)
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- RE: With 24-bits, no way any current technology can reach this - Tony Lauck 13:45:07 12/7/12 (4)
- RE: With 24-bits, no way any current technology can reach this - Archimago 13:04:54 12/8/12 (3)
- RE: With 24-bits, no way any current technology can reach this - Tony Lauck 14:00:45 12/8/12 (2)
- RE: With 24-bits, no way any current technology can reach this - Archimago 19:24:34 12/9/12 (1)
- RE: With 24-bits, no way any current technology can reach this - Tony Lauck 06:21:40 12/10/12 (0)