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Posted by Archimago (A ) on March 13, 2018 at 23:25:35

In Reply to: RE: Glad to hear from you, too, Jim posted by bjh on March 13, 2018 at 17:42:00:

"It is a great irony that at this particular point in the evolution of audio we are all about determining the subjective aberrations of some lossy codex!"

Bravo bjh.

So bizarre that in an era of high speed internet capable of 4K/multichannel video streaming, terabytes of cheap storage, excellent DACs capable of 384/768kHz samplerate, jitter-free interfaces capable of high speeds easily handled by hi-res stereo... that we even need to argue about this.

Why bother as consumers even entertaining this?! Moreover, why did audiophile magazines *ever* think this was conceivably a decent idea.

From the start, if the audiophile magazine writers basically said "meh, we've already heard high-res and FLAC is good", I think they would have represented the interests of audiophiles seeking the best sound. And so many key strokes would have been saved...

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