Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs?

@itanibro

i’m a mastering engineer with 11 Grammy winning projects in my résumé and I work on every style for 25 years… Here’s the reality

16 bit 44.1 Audio (CD) is not in any practical way inferior to 24 bit 44.1 Audio or 24 96 or 192 for 99% of modern recordings and only 1% of us could tell 24 from 16 bit

The industries surrounding higher bit rates and higher sample rates, those are all bullshit… The best quality master is the one that was done in the mastering room, someone like Daniel Lenois did many amazing records using 16 bit DAT tape, for example

streaming audio is very much inferior to 16 bit audio

@lalitk I have downloaded files I mastered from QOBUZ etc. I have done the work. It’s my job

"high resolution" is a marketing myth

@soix There is nothing superior to the sample and bit rate from the mastering session. When we don’t know the source higher sample and bit rates trick us

It’s all about commerce Big dick syndrome lol

@lalitk maybe you’re someone who buys the sales pitch that you’re sold instead of someone who knows what they’re doing, but I’m willing to give you a chance

Go ahead and define what is "high definition" audio

Then please explain why music mastered at 96K is superior to music mastered at 44.1

And then explain how up sampling improves a master file

Extra Credit: why is MQA more of what the artists intends vs the mastered file

go ahead and be the expert, I’m here for it.

@lalitk 

you made a couple of reasonable comments and then a whole lot of sales pitch that any AI could have generated  

upsampling a master is always damaging, always

MQA always adds distortion. Always. Bulk processing was common and that technology was always just respondent with lies, starting with the lossless patent 

sample rate for 99.9% of music has absolutely nothing to do with sound quality in a mastering context.  For a recording engineer or a mixing engineer, a higher sample rate can mask the deficiencies of the conversion and make it seem subjectively better  
 

my AD converter was $24,000 in 2002 and at 44.1 or 96k it is massively superior to a cheap AD converter at 96 or even a good AD converter made today

surface mount components don't sound as good as discrete circuits given equal design skill. 

@roadwhorerecords ridiculous and redundant both :)