On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 07:28:04PM -0200, Fabio wrote: > Em quinta-feira 18 novembro 2010, às 18:37:30, fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx escreveu: > > > For these tests the authors used 'audiophile' DVD-A recordings > > (mostly classical music and jazz IIRC), all of them 24-bit, 96 > > or or 192 kHz, and had the listeners compare them to a version > > transcoded to CD standards (44.1 kHz, 16 bit). Two results > > emerged from this: > > > > 1. Nobody could hear any difference between the original recordings, > > reproduced using the best equipment available, and the transcoded > > versions. > > > > 2. Almost all listeners preferred the 'audiophile' recordings to > > other versions of the same music released on CD. > > well, you sure loose quality downsampling to 16bit, that's what they heard On the contrary, the test showed that the listeners could *not* hear the difference. Ciao, -- FA There are three of them, and Alleline. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
