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.
Yes compleatly pointless. One may argue that a higher sample rate can result in a more accurately timed reproduction of the soundwave depending on the dac ane its filter but … I doubt you cab hear a difference even with super high end electrostatic headphones.
My uncle has been obsessed with this his whole life. He got electrostatic headphones with a high voltage supply to use it. He even has some patents on electrostatic driver designs.
He does not want to omit the idea that hi res has a benefit to impulse reproduction. Yes you can definitely see the ringing artifacts that the discretisation brings and yes the impulse widens because of this, but i get the impression that this is more a theoretical concept than any real world difference. The brain does not allow this kind of nuance.