Another way to think about it is that you not only listen with your ears, but that your head processes it. You cannot know what you are really hearing unless you remove potential biases in your head. One way to do this is to do double blind testing. This means someone plays you music from the two sources in question. You cannot know which is which, and also they cannot know as they may guide you subconsciously. If you can statistically differentiate between the two sources, say more than 15 out of 20 or whatever, then you may have a case that something has changed. There are guides setting out the methodology on hydrogenaudio for example.
See this study done by a forum member here: http://archimago.blogspot.com/2014/06/24-bit-vs-16-bit-audio-test-part-ii.html. Not the exactly the same format as described above, but still has good conclusions. In this case they asked people to listen to *different* files and people couldn't tell the difference. In your case you are listening to the same files... Louis 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/lrossouw) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ lrossouw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3416 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101788 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
