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Old 03-29-2026, 05:16 PM   #70
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
Real world intruding but a few years back, one friend of mine got into SACDs, HDCDs, 24bit/96KHz, 24bit/192KHz and quite a few other varieties of snake oil. He could easily afford the expense but in testing, none of us were able to tell a good CD from any of the "advanced" format CDs when listening over speakers and very few were able to agree on which format sounded better when using his headphone collection.
I got two more links to share.

First is a recording of Ethan Winer's Audio Myths Workshop. Has some great information.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYTlN6wjcvQ

Second is a recent article from Tom's Hardware in which audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between music played through copper wire, a banana, or a pan of mud.
https://www.tomshardware.com/speaker...riment-creator
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