"Todd Lipcon" wrote in message


In article ,
"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.

If its so easy, why not give the other files a try?

Either you're hearing just the indicated difference, or your audio interface
and/or monitoring facility has problems with high frequency nonlinear
distortion.

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

Shouldn't be nonlinear enough to cause problems. However...

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

That, and a relatively sheltered life could help quite a bit. However,
younger people have tried and failed for whatever reason.