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I'm not even quite sure how to phrase my question, but here it goes...

So my DAC has LED's for 44, 96, 176 and so forth. I tried to get an understanding on how the different bit rates affect quality, but quickly became confused with bit depth, Flac files, Redbook and other terminology which all plays into the equation.
Can anyone point me to a dumb-down, digital for dummies kind of resource?
Thank you.
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61falcon OP
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Erik,
Thank you for taking the time to give a concise understandable explanation. 
Really like the pool/chlorine analogy!

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Lalitk: The vast majority of what I stream comes with the LED on 44K. If I seek out some high resolution song, on some of them anyhow, the LED will go to 96K. How to compare if you don't know what the bit rate is? How would one determine what the bit rate of the stream is? I use Deezer and Amazon HD.  I may cancel the Amazon as the Deezer interface works better for me and I am not a huge fan of Amazon plus, I don't find a whole lot of HD albums, individual songs yes, but not a lot of albums in HD.
Thanks!
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Jond:
I am streaming via Bluesound vault so I guess there is no way to see the bit count. 
Perhaps after I quit Amazon HD I'll try the free month subscription to Qobuz and see if I can detect the difference. 
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