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"Arny Krueger" wrote:


These files have been auditioned by virtually thousands of people, and still
nobody has reported signficiant deterioration of sound quality due to
downsampling to lower resolution formats, providing that lower resoltuion
format has higher resolution than 14/32. BTW, these are similar results as
those it is said to have been obtained by the BBC in the 1960's or 1970s.

For what it's worth, I can clearly hear the difference between the
samples on your site of castanets low passed at 22kHz vs 18kHz. Using an
ABX utility, I can get above 99.5% confidence. This would indicate that
I could easily hear the difference between 14/44 and 14/32, given 32khz
sampling is equivalent to a low pass at 16kHz.

Monitoring chain nothing too special -- Motu 828mkII through HR624s in
an untreated room.

I'm also 19, though, so that may have something to do with the good HF
hearing.

-Todd