urbo73
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Here's an excellent post from someone in the know about high-rez audio. I'm posting this because it's very educational, and goes over a lot of misunderstandings regarding what high-rez audio really is. 192kHz/24bit is of no use really. Extra bits don't mean much, unless you use them in the production phase as overhead, but for playback, you'll never, ever hear a difference. CD quality 16/44 is about all you need or can make out. A/B blind tests have shown this already. SACD has no advantage. The reason SACDs sound better is because greater care is taken in the recording process. The Beatles on iTunes are fine in 16/44, but not fine at 256Kbps compression. The compression is the big deal, not the sampling rate or bit depth. I don't think any of the Beatle recordings had more than 25db of dynamic range....
http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/415361/24bit-vs-16bit-the-myth-exploded
http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/415361/24bit-vs-16bit-the-myth-exploded