Oh. Upsampling? Well, my CD-player can upsample to 192 kHz, so I guess I can listen to all my CDs in hi-res! :dt880smile:

I may have had similar attitude when I was young, but I am wiser now (I hope) and I have noticed being content is more important. I am happy to say CD is good enough to make me content. I don't need to look for anything better, thank God!

Theoretically the "best" digital PCM audio format is ∞ Hz / ∞ bit. That is the best, believe me. Obviously we can never have that, because even one second of music at such resolution means infinite amount of data. We have to be content with finite sampling rates and finite bit depth, but how...

Do you find ALL of your music in hi-res? I struggle to find my favourite music even on CD! I suppose only a minuscule fraction of the music I like is available in hi-res. What is the point of listening to music you don't care about, hi-res or not? Anyway, the limitations of CD have NEVER been an...

Many audiophiles get fooled by snake-oil sellers. For me the illusion is off thou...

Sure, since bit depth has nothing to do with bandwidth.

We can say hi-res is better for dogs, cats and bats, but I do NOTHING with that advantage, because I am a 53 years old human and even CD offers frequencies beyond my hearing...

Fortunately human ears are somewhat less demanding than the sampling theorem.

Hi-res can be closer to original analog audio signal if there are stuff above about 20 kHz in the analog signal (not so clear there is anything else than noise). Even then it doesn't matter, because people don't hear above 20 kHz (apart maybe some extremely rare cases). CDs sound bad when the...

The highest sampling frequency that would make sense in consumer PCM digital audio is about 60 kHz. Even 96 kHz sampling frequency is overkill and 192 kHz is just ridiculous unless you are a bat. As I have suggested before, 58.8 kHz/12 bit consumer audio with shaped dither would make sense as an...

Yes, of course I read, but I don't just believe everything I read. I am critical of what I read. Proper DACs do not have staircases. If the picture is from the actual output, the DAC doesn't function as it should.

It is hard to change the facts since they are facts (2+2 doesn't become equal to 5 just because your beliefs say so), but luckily people can change their beliefs to be more "compatible" with the facts.

That can't be from the output of a DAC. It must be from an internal signal point of a DAC before reconstruction filtering. Nobody claims such signal doesn't have staircases (of course it does, because it isn't properly bandlimited!), but that's not the output of a proper DAC. The next picture...

Yeah, because you haven't seen Jurassic Park before you have seen it in 20K! :jecklinsmile: I am someone who thinks 2K is enough for movies at home unless your screen is very large (simulating movie theaters).

Sound quality is a fraction of my enjoyment of music. Reconstruncting "better" doesn't make any bad music better for me. Since I can't hear beyond 15 kHz or so at my age, 44100 Hz sampling is more than I need, but I can hear the difference between 22050 Hz and 44100 Hz sampling. The former...