The HD-Audio Challenge II

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The HD-Audio Challenge II

Pim

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05-May-2020, 10:18

(05-May-2020, 09:54)bernardl Wrote:
(03-May-2020, 10:59)Pim Wrote:
(03-May-2020, 10:24)Axel Wrote: Are my ears up to it? Probably not.

Hi res music has the technical capacity to produce frequencies above red book CD quality, which is about 22 kHz. That's the one and only difference between CD and Hi res. Anything above 20 kHz or so is beyond the scope of human hearing so to answer your question; nope, and neither are anyone else's.

i have read this claim many times and it seems reasonable.

However I, and quite a few people I have spoken to, can definitely hear ultrasonic catstoppers that, as far as i could check are typically specced at 23 khz.

i am not sure what to make out of this.

Cheers,
Bernard

I used to be able to too but there's no music at that frequency.

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