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.
I disagree with regards to sampling rate. If you have 44.1 kHz sampling rate, you need a brickwall low pass filter that goes -96 dB between, say 18 kHz and 22.05 kHz to avoid aliasing on audible range (as per Shannon-Nyquist criterion.
That’s -331 dB per octave. A ridiculously high requirement.
Compare that with 96 kHz, which requires -68 dB per octave or 192 kHz which needs -40 dB per octave and higher sampling rate starts making sense.