No surprise there, sample rate puts a hard cap on frequency response. If you still have decent (not flat, just not high loss) hearing up to 16k+, 32 v 44 will be easy to identify. Compression works differently. Like a painting with a color missing would be more noticeable than if all the color gradients were “stepped” rather than smooth, but with a very high number of steps.
No surprise there, sample rate puts a hard cap on frequency response. If you still have decent (not flat, just not high loss) hearing up to 16k+, 32 v 44 will be easy to identify. Compression works differently. Like a painting with a color missing would be more noticeable than if all the color gradients were “stepped” rather than smooth, but with a very high number of steps.