Well that's quite opinionated of you. Youtube videos can start discussion.
Yes I have an opinion, as does everyone on this forum, however I am simply stating I will not be bothering to watch your latest edition nor any that simply show someone else's opinion on a subject matter that's usually pointless.
I do not think most people want to read that you wont be watching something. Most people will not care.
Silly and utterly pointless. They’ve given the marketing department too much influence. I’m sure there are gullible types who’ll get taken in by it though.
CD quality covers the entire range of human hearing and the dynamic range is more than enough with CD, accepting the fact that the mastering process is as careful as it is with vinyl mastering. All these numbers don't change anything. It's just numbers for the sake of it and you won't hear the difference.
Some time ago I downloaded an album from Qobuz that was 24bit 172KHz and, couldn't hear any noticeable improvement, on my Pathos amp and Focals.
These numbers are just nonsense and buying an 'upgrade' licence is a waste of money. IF recording studios used this level of recording quality AND it was available on streaming platforms AND all the streaming amps had DACs capable of this level of recording, then it would all work, but nobody would hear the difference. People need to remember that most recording studios are using 24 bit at most and this is decimated to 16 bit for CD, which I think is good enough. There will be 24 bit masters available on a few streaming platforms, but can you really hear the difference? It's just this relentless marketing of higher and higher numbers, which don't translate into real world improvements. You can chop up a recording as much as possible, but there's a point where human hearing can't tell the difference. The only way to experience your favourite albums at studio quality is to visit one and ask them to play the source tapes or digital files. Everyone's chasing unicorns and you won't catch one.
I think people are hang up on the frequency spectrum, what human ear can hear and can't.
Higher bit depth are useful with mastering so that eq changes etc make as little impact as possible on fidelity. For the end listener 16 bit is perfectly fine.
Yeah the problem is you're wide open to placebo effects etc here.
The placebo effect is another abstract we pull out of the sky to neutralise an argument, not saying it doesn't exist and doesn't colour your perception of the actual sound but I like to give my ears a little bit of the credit also 🙂
No, placebo effect is something that very much happens but we ignore far too often.
For every argument there's a counter argument, life is far more layered and complicated than the stuff conjured by social scientists - see link below.
That is such a weak response.
You refuse to even watch something which argues against your point. You are therefore wide open to placebo and bias. Not much we can do about you and not much point in discussing with you any longer. Your head is in the sand.
My head is no deeper in the sand than yours 🙂
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