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.
You absolutely do not want to be blasting your ears with anything close to 144db for any amount of time, if you can help it. That gets into immediate hearing loss territory. Even 96db is hearing loss territory, though not immediate.
I usually listen at 75-77db, which allows for peaks of higher than 77db without problems. Even having 144db is kinda useless for me. The question of whether your gear can produce 144db of audio is in question as well. I’ve also read that microphones can’t really record anything above 20 bits - 120db, in other words.