I’m saying even if the bits are the same it can and will sound different. In the real world, a world populated by real audiophiles bits are not bits. The laser reads bumps and lands, for one thing, not zeros and ones. So, what you’re calling bits are even bits to begin with. Hel-loo! A lot can happen between the time the laser reads the physical bumps and lands and the time the data is converted to an analog signal.
Are high sample rates making your music sound worse?
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@cleeds Well, I said that if you load up the high-rez digital file and subtracted the differences between a 16/44.1, you’ll see the differences. You replied that I think listening doesn’t matter. As I’ve said, what you hear is the most important, measurements don’t mean anything compared to what you hear, measurements just are able to tell us wether you are hearing things that actually exist. If I played the same digital file to 100 people and then played the same file again and asked if they heard a difference, how many do you think will say yes? @geoffkait Maybe if you bought a CD player at a dollar store. A $75 Blu-Ray player will output the same bits as a $10,000 CD player, only differences are jitter, which even a “cheap” DAC will reduce to below -100dBFS. Not sure if you know, you can literally drill a hole in a CD and it will not change anything. CD has a lot of protection against faults. |
@geoffkait Maybe if you bought a CD player at a dollar store. A $75 Blu-Ray player will output the same bits as a $10,000 CD player, only differences are jitter, which even a “cheap” DAC will reduce to below -100dBFS. >>>>>The only differences are jitter? You mean like jitter caused by ordinary vibration of the CD transport and very low frequency seismic vibration? And jitter produced by scattered background laser light? Lol 😝 Not sure if you know, you can literally drill a hole in a CD and it will not change anything. CD has a lot of protection against faults. >>>>I’ll take your word for it. I have not punched a hole in any CDs lately. One thing the CD player can’t deal with are radial scratches. No protection against that. Also, there’s no protection against random noise as can be deduced by painting the CD outer edge green and using your ears. Reed Solomon only gets you so far. Perfect sound forever. LOL |
@geoffkait Not sure if you were joking, but to cover bases: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bewaring-of-the-green/ |
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