Frankly , sound quality depends more on the acoustics of the recording site and the talents of the recording/mixing engineers than any of that stuff. There are outstanding recordings at 16/44.1 and grim ones at 24/192. That said, higher resolution does have real, but marginal, advantages. Multichannel is also significant, IMHO.
Attention: Debussy-loving audiophiles
This may be old news to those of you who followed classical releases in 2018 more closely than I. I just discovered the Harmonia Mundi recording of the Philharmonia Orchestra playing the two most common Debussy orchestral warhorses and the much less common Fragments Symphonique from Le Martyre de saint Sébastien. It is available on Qobuz in 24-bit/48 kHz resolution.
I'm curious how you would judge the sound quality of this recording. I'm not as interested in critiques of the performances, but if you wish you can chime in on that. I have my own opinion of the sound quality, and wonder how others hear it.
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