Hooray !, somebody finally got down to the facts and just the facts ma’am. Sometimes here on Audiogon, it’s like the Tower of Babel . One thing I do believe is music that is recorded strictly to be attractive to the audiophile market is boring.I don’t believe in creating music to show off the capabilities of a studio. To me it’s not the medium it’s the message.
Member Old Ear gives it to us by the numbers and his actual experience
The facts and just the facts ma’am.
OLD EARS “So a bit of googling shows U-Tube at 750p maxes out at 128kbs AAC and YouTube Premium (old Red) maxes at 256kbs ACC. YouTube accepts hi res up to 96kbs Flac lossless, but these are transcoded to the above levels. They recommend submitting the best res files you have for better sound.
That said the NBR examples info are showing 24/192 files and I find setting my Pontus II to that res does sound slightly better. No where near my own 24/192 Wav or AIFF files, or even well recorded 16/44.1 via I2s from an OPPO player.
I really like user supported RadioParadise.com for their 16/44.1 FLAC channels that have some added processing.”