Your digital photography analogy doesn't work. The "Information" that can be captured in an image is much, much greater and inherently more complex than ANY audio requirement. Light and sound are very different beasts!
In terms of AUDIO, 44.1khz sampling is all that is needed to capture the "information". (refer Shannon et al - Information Theory). The key assumption being that the Nyquist frequency of 44.1 divided by 2 is adequate. If we only want frequencies up to a max of 22.050Khz then it is. It's not about "information" - it's about processing artefacts (ringing, aliasing etc) in the information recovery process. This is where higher sampling really can help because it makes it easier to deal with those artefacts. But it's not about "more information"... I do think that high res files are a good thing, but not because they have more information or restore missing information, rather because they can be mastered and reproduced with less problems and compromises... As for anyone who can hear a difference between 2 bit-for-bit identical files on a computer... ???????? Guess we are lucky that computers and the Internet work at all really. By the way, I have lots of shm cd's and most of them sound better than their non-shm equivalents. One thing I have noticed but haven't had time to drill into yet is that the equivalent FLAC files tend to be somewhat (5% ish) larger... This implies a difference in the mastering. I don't believe that the disk coating is having any effect at all (it might on a conventional CD player, but not when ripping on a rom drive...) -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB Touch Beta (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69882 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
