Re: Sound
I diasagree.
First, I can hear the difference. Yes, I have tried blind testing, and with excellent earphones I can tell the difference, while saying "yes, the difference is very small to my ears."
I can tell the difference up to 48Khz, 20bit. Depending on age, some people might not benefit from sample rate.
The reason you do this (24 bit, 96K) as you probably know, is to preserve the quality while processing the sound.
Then you downsample to the desired quality. CD quality is a bit too low.. 20bit 48Khz is about perfect.
Now, on a portable device I do understand the need to compress beyond lossless into lossy.. the music otherwise just wont fit.. but to provide a pathetic DAC only makes the sound worse.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
