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Originally Posted by JSWolf
What do you concider to be a normalprice range?
You obviously are not listening. I'll say this one more time. Read very carefully and very slowly. 24/96 has sonic benefits that are in the audible frequency range.
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I'm not listening because you're talking bullshit. Most speakers can't reproduce that 'benefit'.
If there was a clearly noticeable difference between 16/44.1 and anything higher, then Xiph.org wouldn't have posted a long article stating that anything above 16/44.1 is useless except for editing. Have you actually read the article, and watched the linked Show&Tell video's?
About 24/96, the article actually says:
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Assuming your system is actually capable of full 96kHz playback [6], the above files should be completely silent with no audible noises, tones, whistles, clicks, or other sounds. If you hear anything, your system has a nonlinearity causing audible intermodulation of the ultrasonics. Be careful when increasing volume; running into digital or analog clipping, even soft clipping, will suddenly cause loud intermodulation tones.
In summary, it's not certain that intermodulation from ultrasonics will be audible on a given system. The added distortion could be insignificant or it could be noticable. Either way, ultrasonic content is never a benefit, and on plenty of systems it will audibly hurt fidelity. On the systems it doesn't hurt, the cost and complexity of handling ultrasonics could have been saved, or spent on improved audible range performance instead.
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Summarized: even *if* your system can play the 'benefits' you're so adamant about, Xiph.org states that it's useless and actually harmful *within the audible range*.
I hope you don't mind that the words written by people who actually design and write audio codecs hold more weight with me than yours.