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RE: Do you judge hi-rez classical music actually sounds better than 44/16?

On paper, high-rez should sound better than 16/44 or CD..... But the few times I've experienced high-rez, there was something in the playback itself that kept me from enjoying the music..... I've for a long time suspected RFI intermodulating with the music.....

This was over ten years ago, but I was at someone's house in Scottsdale, he had a system with floor-standing versions of the Don Allen Eminence coaxial speakers..... He played the CD layer of a Mercury hybrid SACD of Byron Janis/Antal Dorati/Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra performance of Rachmaninoff's Third Concerto..... Enjoyed the performance immensely, as did other visitors in the place..... The owner on a whim decided to play the same disc SACD layer on his SACD player, which was in the same system..... After 10 minutes, I requested the playback be shut down.... One of the other visitors at the place also said he didn't enjoy it nearly as much.... I was listening to the hyper-detail in the recording instead of the performance, and "fatigue" set in.


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