RobbH wrote: > .. (There was a story that the capacity was dictated by the wife of > Sony's president, who insisted that Beethoven's Symphony #9 had to fit > on one disc.) Like most new technologies that seem at first to be > perfect, because they are free of the obvious problems of past > technologies, it took some time for people to learn to hear the > imperfections of the CD format. Many -- probably most -- of us have > never learned, and we are usually happier for our ignorance. But I don't > think it's at all reasonable to think that, because I usually hear no > difference between 16 and 24 bits, or between 44.1 and 96 KHz sample > rates (with ears that are old enough that they hear little or nothing > above 10 KHz), therefore anybody who claims to hear a difference must be > wrong.
https://www.philips.com/a-w/research/technologies/cd/black-giants.html A fun article on the development of the CD. There are sources that claim it was Karajan who insisted it needed to be 74 mins to receive his backing (9th indeed). I am part of the club that claims existing music playback tech probably doesn't allow me to hear beyond CD quality, and that's in the rather rare cases we're talking about a great recording - I'd estimate 90% of music is recorded indifferently, surprisingly often even ineptly. That said, I do have quite a few high resolution copies of my favorite albums, but I do it mostly for archiving and psychoacoustics. :-D ...p ...pablo Server: Virtual Machine (on VMware Workstation) running Ubuntu 18.04 + LMS 7.9.1 System: SB Touch --optical->- Benchmark DAC2HGC --AnalysisPlus Oval Copper XLR->- NAD M22 Power Amp --AnalysisPlus Black Mesh Oval->- KEF Reference 1 Other Rooms: 2x SB Boom; 1x SB Radio; 1x SB Classic-> NAD D7050 -> Totem DreamCatcher + Velodyne Minivee Sub Computer audio: workstation --USB->- audioengine D1 -> Grado RS1/Shure 1540 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111693 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
