If you can hear 16 kHz, I’ll think there’s a chance this is true. I’ve tested it and my limit is around 14 kHz. 15 kHz is simply inaudible. In my youth, I could still hear the coil whine of 15.6 kHz from analog PAL TVs, but no more. Even when I was a teenager, I couldn’t hear 16 kHz, my limit was very close around that 15.6 kHz.
Note that sample rate alone doesn’t define everything. A reasonably high quality sample rate converter may be needed to eke out every last bit of performance that 32 kHz sampled audio can do. If you just use a poor quality resampler, you can maybe cause enough damage to the audio to make the difference audible.
16 khz hurts my ears on high volumes, my left ear can hear up to 18 khz but it gets really hard to notice past 17200 hz or so. I’m almost 25, so it’s not that surprising. It’s definitely true, high-pitched sounds with a 32000 hz sample rate sound distorted to me, but beyond 44.1 khz everything sounds the same, even 96 khz or 192 khz audio. At the same time I have a very hard time telling the difference between 128 kbps and lossless, I tested it yesterday and couldn’t, I might be able to depending on the song or setup, but I doubt it.
If you can hear 16 kHz, I’ll think there’s a chance this is true. I’ve tested it and my limit is around 14 kHz. 15 kHz is simply inaudible. In my youth, I could still hear the coil whine of 15.6 kHz from analog PAL TVs, but no more. Even when I was a teenager, I couldn’t hear 16 kHz, my limit was very close around that 15.6 kHz.
Note that sample rate alone doesn’t define everything. A reasonably high quality sample rate converter may be needed to eke out every last bit of performance that 32 kHz sampled audio can do. If you just use a poor quality resampler, you can maybe cause enough damage to the audio to make the difference audible.
16 khz hurts my ears on high volumes, my left ear can hear up to 18 khz but it gets really hard to notice past 17200 hz or so. I’m almost 25, so it’s not that surprising. It’s definitely true, high-pitched sounds with a 32000 hz sample rate sound distorted to me, but beyond 44.1 khz everything sounds the same, even 96 khz or 192 khz audio. At the same time I have a very hard time telling the difference between 128 kbps and lossless, I tested it yesterday and couldn’t, I might be able to depending on the song or setup, but I doubt it.