mcduman wrote: > when the cd was invented in the 80s it offered a resolution of 1411 > kbps. when you bought a computer at that time it came with a 320x240 > screen. > fast forward to today, and the most popular streaming service offers 320 > kbps. when you buy a high end computer it comes with a 4096x2160 > screen > > so when streaming music we are at 1/4 of where we were 40 years ago, but > when streaming movies or playing games visually our screen resolution > improved by a factor of 100x. > > so, we are told that, you can not _hear__the former, but definitely > _see__the latter. by the way I never saw a test where people are shown > 10 second fragments of a random movie in 2 screens of HD and UHD > resolution and are asked whether they saw any differences. because it > would be almost impossible to the differentiate in a rushed test but > over time with different program material it would show that 2x more > resolution can make for a nice and noticeable improvement. > > when apple and others introduced the ipods way back, the biggest > bottleneck was the hdd capacity. so they compressed the music and fed us > the bullshit that it was not audible anyways. one may care or not, but > it is audible in the long run with the correct music and correct setup > just like computer screens and tvs. > > remember that if we did not have better screens nobody would develop > better games or better movies. likewise when we have hi-res audio, the > record companies will make better sounding music. > > compressed music is based on a lie, but with increased bandwidth and > stuff can have the highest resolution audio possible. and all of us in > these forums want that
CD resolution is based on 100% factual science. Look up Nyquist. Anyone claiming otherwise is delusional, frankly. If effing Karajan was 100% happy, and he might have had decent hearing.... anyhow, anyone is free to listen to their music with whatever compulsive crutch they need to think they have a better experience. I know what I enjoy. :-) ...pablo Server: Win10 and LMS 8.1.0 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=114009 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
