I mostly listen to music on a Windows pc with a FIIO Q7, HD560 in Foobar2k, which I consider to be literally baby level gear compare with the setups and gear some users have here. Anyway, I have been checking on rebuilding my music library and I notice that FLACs with 24b-48kHz really sound different from the previous tracks I had, but above that i.e., 24b-96kHz, 24b-192kHz or even DSF tracks does not sound different at all.
Sorry if this is a stupid question, I literally just change from some Marshall Monitors and listening music in windows VLC to this beginner level gear. So, I assume my lack of knowledge and lack of higher level gear is the culprit to me not finding any difference with quality levels above 48kHz. I hope the community can help me with some insights for me to understand a little more, and tweak something’s while I get use to this hobby.
PD. I am not planning on buying more gear at the moment, maybe in the future I will get into more advance level stuff.
Bit depth greater than 16 bit on the final (already mixed) track, what significance can it have in view of the indiscriminate use of compression in recordings and the presence of background noise in our homes? And if you are 50 years old, you will not hear sounds above the 12 kHz… But regardless of where the listener lives and how old he or she is, it would be nice to have clip-free recordings, instead of the commonly found ridiculous amounts of digital clipping… Unfortunately, almost all (except perhaps DSD) digital recording formats are defenseless against the carelessness of the producer. This is the only thing I envy for fans of vinyl records, they are necessarily free from clipping (otherwise they would not be playable, at least physically).