Are high sample rates making your music sound worse?

tatyana69

mzkmxcv This poster is an example of people who JUST DO NOT LISTEN, either to music or other people. 

Quite so, as he admits:

You don’t even need measurement gear, all you need is a program that loads the two digital files and shows you the difference between them

@tatyana69

I highly doubt it has the exact same measurements, meaning a full suite, not just frequency reponse and wattage. Even a high end brand like Mark Levinson cannot make the exact same amp, they all have minuscule deviations.

I listen, and I’ve never heard a difference with going to 24Bit or changing speaker wires (well, I admit nothing fancy like $5000 cables). Now, if you hear a difference, whose right? Well, since simple math and measurements shows that we shouldn’t hear a difference, I would argue I am.

All I get are responses like yours, and never any actual responses to my questions. If you think 192kHz is audibly different to 44.1kHz, I’d think you to explain why, when I bet you can’t even hear up to 19kHz.

@cleeds

Again, so are you saying when the audio in the digital file is the same they still sound different? As that’s what I’m talking about, compare the audio <20kHz for a 44.1 and a 192 file, and no differences will exist above -100dBFS.

mzkmxcv
“I listen, and I’ve never heard a difference with going to 24Bit or changing speaker wires (well, I admit nothing fancy like $5000 cables). Now, if you hear a difference, whose right? Well, since simple math and measurements shows that we shouldn’t hear a difference, I would argue I am.”

>>>>In the example you gave I’d say he’s right, not you. Lots of people cannot hear lots of things. You can’t prove a negative. Nothing succeeds like success. 🤗

@geoffkait

If someone says the midrange is more pronounced with new speaker wire, where an SPL meter or a measurement mic shows no volume differences, whose right?

Just how headphone burn-in isn’t real, a $500 USB cable won’t sound better than a $20 one (well, I’ll be careful, the sound coming out using the $500 cable won’t be different than the $20 one).

I already gave you my answer. I don’t get involved in these “what about this? what about that?” type discussions.