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In Reply to: RE: Do you typically hear a difference between high res. and 44.1/16? posted by Archimago on February 15, 2010 at 10:21:12:
If you listen to the tonal quality of most music you may not hear the difference between 44.1 and higher sampling rates. Depending on the filters used the high frequencies can be dulled, made edgy, or preserved at the expense of the soundstaging. If you aren't listening to the right thing at the right time it may be very hard to notice a difference. Even if you are focused in on a real difference you may still miss it, because the mind plays tricks. For example, if a particular sound can be heard in one format but not the other, when switching back and forth the mind may fill in the missing pieces, thereby making both versions sound the same.
Hearing the difference between 16 bit and 24 bit resolution will be very difficult on music that has little dynamic range or lots of background noise. Similarly, hearing the difference will be difficult if your system isn't resolving in bit depth and has low noise. Also, if your room isn't quiet any subtle low level differences may be masked. If you listen to acoustic music recorded in a reverberant room (e.g. a well recorded symphony orchestra) you may be able to hear anomalies in the reverberation tails as the music dies out.
If you were to use an editor extensively and downsample many hi-res recordings at a variety of settings you might (eventually) become clued into the subtle differences involved. If you buy a RBCD that has been reduced to 44/16 by a skilled mastering engineer most people will not notice a large difference for most musical genres.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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Follow Ups
- RE: Do you typically hear a difference between high res. and 44.1/16? - Tony Lauck 11:20:51 02/15/10 (4)
- RE: Do you typically hear a difference between high res. and 44.1/16? - Archimago 12:21:56 02/15/10 (3)
- I have heard great differences at CES in the TAD room, but they are probably chosen for this. - Norm 09:52:27 02/17/10 (2)
- RE: I have heard great differences at CES in the TAD room, but they are probably chosen for this. - Archimago 23:17:35 02/17/10 (1)
- RE: I have heard great differences at CES in the TAD room, but they are probably chosen for this. - Tony Lauck 07:36:32 02/18/10 (0)
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