In Reply to: High Resolution - Fact or Fiction? posted by StephenJK on April 9, 2014 at 05:33:12:
For a fair comparison you would have to start off with a hi-rez file, downsample it to 16/44 and compare that to your original hi-rez file. Plus you have to make sure that the files are level matched precisely to 0.1dB or better.
Make sure that your original file is actually full hi-rez. Many hi-rez files sold are just upsampled from a lower rate master. Beck's latest album for example was recorded in 44.1 (they are all clearly brickwall filtered at 20k) except two songs which were recorded in mp3 format (tell-tale brickwall at 16k). If you use something like that the result would be inconclusive plus you would definitely need some one else to switch between files so you do not know which is which.
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- RE: High Resolution - Fact or Fiction? - b.l.zeebub 06:52:25 04/09/14 (24)
- RE: High Resolution - Fact or Fiction? - Inmate51 11:03:05 04/09/14 (4)
- RE: High Resolution - Fact or Fiction? - Tony Lauck 20:16:14 04/10/14 (2)
- RE: High Resolution - Fact or Fiction? - Inmate51 02:50:21 04/11/14 (1)
- RE: High Resolution - Fact or Fiction? - Tony Lauck 07:08:26 04/11/14 (0)
- RE: High Resolution - Fact or Fiction? - b.l.zeebub 08:32:30 04/10/14 (0)
- High Resolution - Fact - Ralph 09:57:29 04/09/14 (17)
- RE: High Resolution - Fact - Goober58 07:59:47 04/10/14 (5)
- the best digital still does not match the LP for resolution. - Ralph 10:07:47 04/10/14 (4)
- How do you measure resolution? (the kind vinyl does better than CD) - Goober58 10:53:18 04/10/14 (3)
- That's a really good question! - Ralph 13:05:38 04/10/14 (2)
- RE: That's a really good question! - Inmate51 03:17:03 04/11/14 (1)
- Yes they do. - Ralph 08:25:58 04/11/14 (0)
- RE: High Resolution - Fact - StephenJK 04:17:12 04/10/14 (1)
- We try... - Ralph 08:34:16 04/10/14 (0)
- RE: High Resolution - Fact - b.l.zeebub 10:50:01 04/09/14 (3)
- That is for the preview head only - Ralph 11:46:26 04/09/14 (2)
- RE: That is for the preview head only - b.l.zeebub 07:27:41 04/10/14 (1)
- that's a sloppy way to do it - Ralph 09:30:40 04/10/14 (0)
- Thank you - E-Stat 10:07:37 04/09/14 (4)
- RE: Thank you - Daverz 17:41:02 04/09/14 (3)
- That's not exactly what I was saying. - Ralph 10:19:49 04/10/14 (1)
- "Look at how far computing has come in the last 34 years" - E-Stat 07:37:22 04/11/14 (0)
- RE: Thank you - E-Stat 10:12:26 04/10/14 (0)
- And that's part of the problem. - StephenJK 08:07:15 04/09/14 (0)