Mr Ee
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There's a reason I only have plain old Tidal hi fi...
I imagine you now feel good after telling the world your opinion about the various quality levels of digital audio.Why are so many obsessed with high res audio? Don’t get me wrong I was one of them. I read countless reviews on DACs and getting the “best” audio I could. I stream Apple Music/Classical via Airplay 2 to my Wiim Pro Plus. Goes to my Willsenton r8 tube amp then on to my Denton 85th anniversary speakers. Sounds amazing. And yes it’s not high res it’s 16/44.1 cd quality audio. From articles I’ve read cd quality audio covers the entire range of human hearing. Our ears aren’t capable of hearing high res frequencies. 999 people out of a 1000 can’t hear the difference. I still have a Qobuz subscription that doesn’t expire for another week or so. So I did some experimenting with my and my wife’s ears. We switched back and forth from Qobuz and Apple Music playing Pat Metheny’s latest album. Audio quality on Qobuz was 24/96 Apple Music was 16/44.1. She nor I could tell any difference. My wife is no audiophile by any means or am I but she said why pay for something your ears can’t hear. And I kind of agreed with her. Don’t get me wrong I’m not saying I’m right or better than anyone at all. Music and audio systems are a wonderful world/hobby to be in. To each their own. Your money your choice. Basically what I’m rambling about is that I’m happy with what my 52 year old ears can actually hear. Thank you for reading. Listen on.
Can’t get that page to load, plus it’s likely behind a paywall.
This was an interesting article and video I came across a few weeks back - certainly food for thought.
"Listening": a Video Tribute to Art Dudley
Listening, an extraordinary video tribute to the late writer Art Dudley's taste, vision, and devotion to music, premiers this month on Stereophile's YouTube channel. The video follows the unusual path of Art's beloved Altec Lansing Flamenco loudspeakers from their home in Upstate New York to...www.stereophile.com
I do feel good actually. As I stated I don’t think that I’m right and everyone who listens to high res is wrong. Just expressing my opinion. We all have them and are free to express. I value yours.I imagine you now feel good after telling the world your opinion about the various quality levels of digital audio.
But… others may disagree. Hi-res audio does not have to do with frequencies beyond human hearing. It has to do do with many other aspects including making recordings easier to fit in the the recording medium.
Disagreement in the audio community! Never!I imagine you now feel good after telling the world your opinion about the various quality levels of digital audio.
But… others may disagree. Hi-res audio does not have to do with frequencies beyond human hearing. It has to do do with many other aspects including making recordings easier to fit in the the recording medium.
AgreedDisagreement in the audio community! Never!
Yeah, hi res certainly has its place, but for me I'm happy with 'CD quality' at the point of consumption, and if that's off a 192khz remaster that's great by me too.
Disagreement in the audio community! Never!
Yeah, hi res certainly has its place, but for me I'm happy with 'CD quality' at the point of consumption, and if that's off a 192khz remaster that's great by me too.
I have debated the usefullness of high res (> 16bit/44.1k) since it became available. There _are_ some measurable differences in analog signal reproduced in higher res. For one thing, it can be shown mathematically that it is possible for 44.1k to clip when being decoded even if the digital encoding did not clip, whereas higher res (DSD for example) doesn't show this potential.Why are so many obsessed with high res audio?
44.1KHz is not the bit rate. The bit rate for CD audio is 1,411Kbps.the bit rate is greatly higher than 44.1K
Indeed, the best upgrade I ever made to my hifi was when I first had my ears syringed. (The second was getting a WiiM).Must admit to a little smile when I checked out the webpage for the excellent VinylStudio software mentioned earlier today in another thread where he has a recommendation for a friend’s business - he runs an ear wax removal service…
My ear doctor gave me the advice to do this at least every second year. Especially for such an obsessed headphone user like me. No idea if this is "medically correct" but he told me frequently headphone usage can produce some additional earwax..It makes no harm and the medical insurance pays.Indeed, the best upgrade I ever made to my hifi was when I first had my ears syringed. (The second was getting a WiiM).
My ear doctor gave me the advice to do this at least every second year. Especially for such an obsessed headphone user like me. No idea if this is "medically correct" but he told me frequently headphone usage can produce some additional earwax..It makes no harm and the medical insurance pays.
You dont get CD quality from Apple Music/Classical via Airplay 2, you only get lossy AAC compresssed streams. But if you dont hear the difference good for you. I can tell AAC over CD for some music but not all, I find cymbals give compressed material away. I am happy with CD and continure to buy, play and rip them but also buy hires for downloads as with Qobuz sublime there are cheaper than CD quality and often Bandcamp downlaods are hires. But I do struggle to hear a difference between them on well mastered material, a good master is a good master regardless of format even if its AAC. Hires exists to move the DAC filtering stages in the upper registers outside of human hearing so presents less artefacts during the DA process hence why its use for mastering where there is a lot of ADC/DAC processes.Why are so many obsessed with high res audio? Don’t get me wrong I was one of them. I read countless reviews on DACs and getting the “best” audio I could. I stream Apple Music/Classical via Airplay 2 to my Wiim Pro Plus. Goes to my Willsenton r8 tube amp then on to my Denton 85th anniversary speakers. Sounds amazing. And yes it’s not high res it’s 16/44.1 cd quality audio. From articles I’ve read cd quality audio covers the entire range of human hearing. Our ears aren’t capable of hearing high res frequencies. 999 people out of a 1000 can’t hear the difference. I still have a Qobuz subscription that doesn’t expire for another week or so. So I did some experimenting with my and my wife’s ears. We switched back and forth from Qobuz and Apple Music playing Pat Metheny’s latest album. Audio quality on Qobuz was 24/96 Apple Music was 16/44.1. She nor I could tell any difference. My wife is no audiophile by any means or am I but she said why pay for something your ears can’t hear. And I kind of agreed with her. Don’t get me wrong I’m not saying I’m right or better than anyone at all. Music and audio systems are a wonderful world/hobby to be in. To each their own. Your money your choice. Basically what I’m rambling about is that I’m happy with what my 52 year old ears can actually hear. Thank you for reading. Listen on.
Thankfully I never did any of that; personality reasons for an entirely different conversation. I went to a singular concert and could not handle the excessively high amplitude in the environment thus I can never do that again although I enjoyed other facets of it. Whenever the most slight decrease of hearing is detected in either of my ears I become scared for I use my ears for survival; my entire world is predicated on sound and my ears enable me to be no less than hyper-observant.If we are all of a certain age... we killed our hearing going to clubs, concerts, and decibel testing music loud enough in our rooms to get a response from our parents. My "golden ears" now need a tin horn to direct sound to them. Though i'd be interested in shoxx headphones using bone conduction.