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RE: I definitely hear a difference.

Well, OK, but remember that the key issue was whether you think that a well recorded LP saved at 24/96 or 24/192 will sound better than the "same" recording on CD.

Or, to put it differently, and with consideration for the fact that the LP track is now a 24/96 digital file, does that sound better than 16/14.4?

That's really the focus, and the reason for the title of the original post.

There's more details in one of my posts from a while ago at the link but the short story is that I have a number of LP's and the same title on CD. I've ripped the CD's to 16/14.4 FLAC. I've recorded the LP's and ended up with a 24/96 FLAC.

I can play and "compare" the two, but what I'm looking for is depth, soundstage placement of instruments and the presence or absence of subtle details. With the 24/96 I hear things that I don't on the CD track, or I hear them noticeably different.

What's that worth as a scientific experiment? Nothing. But, the question was this, does the high resolution file sound better than the CD version.

A better test would be to compare an HD download file of a particular track and compare that to the CD track. But, that download will be suspect in two areas - the type and quality of the source material and whether it's just an upsampled CD track.

The only controls that I have for my experiment are what's been detailed here. I suppose I could save the LP track at 16/14.4 and compare that to the CD, but that's not my goal.

My goal is to record all of my LP's and then to save them in a digital format that I think gives great resolution that sounds like the original LP while still having a manageable file size.

Hope this helps.



Edits: 04/09/14 04/09/14

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