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Re: Your opinions are contrary to scientific evidence

I think hi-rez has audibly a blacker background. Perhaps that is what you are describing. I also thought that hi-rez was far superior to CD when DADs came out five or six years ago. Particulalrly by Chesky and Classic Records. But then I heard newer CD recordings done well, and some XRCDs, and I realized that the differences were not as large as I had thought.

All of this may be audible, but in my experience less audible when you try it out on a blind basis! That makes me think... But really I think people need to focus more on their room acoustics and loudspeakers and fight less over electronics and media. Too many emotions spent in the wrong arena... Rooms and speakers is where the big problems are. But interestingly, thanks to psycoacoustics it is not so easy to become aware of them unless your system allows you to A/B different set ups. Anyone can more or less A/B CD and SACD with a dual layer. Not necessarily valid but easily doable. But few people can play around with in-room amplitude and phase! So they do not know what they are missing. For instance playing judiciously with in-room equalization. Pretty much conquered territory at this point. And the next big frontier is getting phase done right. Some people are working on computer programs to do that and claim the results are amazing.

I would love to visit Seattle. Thanks for the invite!

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