Bob stuarts old paper is mentioned . I did not mention it myself as you can all see in my sig :) I'm a bit sold on Meridian equipment.
But it is an interesting read, arguing that the real limit that would include *real* golden ears and all humans would be 20bit 58kHz sampling somewhere , this is the background for Meridian to adopt 24/88.2 and 24/96 as maximum rate in thier digital speakers as these are the available " standard " rates used professionally . They picked the closest rates that where " better than CD" . But even this would not be evident to everyone ( for example not me ) . You must play really loud in very quit environment and good acoustics. With the best of gear. (much voodoo gear used by audiophiles would fail) And be in the outlier of the curve of human hearing abilities an extreme specimen . audiophiles think they all belong here, in reality some rare musicians sound engineers and audio designers some combo of training and genes . and the program material must benefit somehow , just like with CD . I believe that the sad state of things is that most masters are not better than CD this is evident by the horrible sound of most popular music since forever ago , the late loudness war is just the most recent atrocity (, maybenthe worst of them all ) . This is the myth that alll "classic" albums magically can be saved from CD by hirez digital downloads :) the boring truth is probably that a remix from source multitrack or a very good remaster can do a great deal of good with some of them . -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93990 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
