Not having read *every* post i like the direction of the OP and Geoff....
first, most of what we like and don't seems to be locked in at recording and mastering. Listen to some 50 year old Verve and Mercury recordings - superb in 16/44. Now listen to Supertramp Crimes of the Century on CD. I rest my case.
Red book (16/44) gives us 96 dB snr vs most analog (which remember, we like) at 60-70 with a tail-wind. The problems must lie elsewhere - yea, they exist, but not in the fundamental coding.
A recording engineer can easily squander 20dB of SNR by getting the level check wrong. That, to me, is the big benefit of 24/96 -- in the studio it allows for another 8 bits of mistakes before we can hear it :-) No, seriously.
Time domain errors have little to do with coding format, and we still have not tamed those. Maybe Bob Stuart is right, maybe wrong, but he's chasing at lest one of the right topics.
I just want good, simply recorded, simply produced 16/44 -- badly done 24/96 just reveals all the awful warts.
Heck, i just heard "ripple" in 192 mp3 (!!!) sound fantastic (on a pretty superb system). Case closed.
G
first, most of what we like and don't seems to be locked in at recording and mastering. Listen to some 50 year old Verve and Mercury recordings - superb in 16/44. Now listen to Supertramp Crimes of the Century on CD. I rest my case.
Red book (16/44) gives us 96 dB snr vs most analog (which remember, we like) at 60-70 with a tail-wind. The problems must lie elsewhere - yea, they exist, but not in the fundamental coding.
A recording engineer can easily squander 20dB of SNR by getting the level check wrong. That, to me, is the big benefit of 24/96 -- in the studio it allows for another 8 bits of mistakes before we can hear it :-) No, seriously.
Time domain errors have little to do with coding format, and we still have not tamed those. Maybe Bob Stuart is right, maybe wrong, but he's chasing at lest one of the right topics.
I just want good, simply recorded, simply produced 16/44 -- badly done 24/96 just reveals all the awful warts.
Heck, i just heard "ripple" in 192 mp3 (!!!) sound fantastic (on a pretty superb system). Case closed.
G