Re: What's the use of a 192 kHz sample rate?

Steven Sullivan wrote:

> *Maybe* your friend was imagining things.

Exactly!
I was close to say that *maybe* the Earth is flat.

With this kind of reasoning, everything is possible.

I tell you another story.

Once I met another guy, responsible of the quality
in one audio CD factory.
He told me that, looking for quality, they asked
also audiophiles about what they think.
It turned out that some people buy 2~3 copies of the
same audio CD, they "test" it at home, and then keep
the one that "sounds better".

So, he was asking what could it be, are there any
difference between CDs of different batches, maybe.
They told him something about jitter, it seems
different CDs can have different jitter.

He, then, took some high end CD player and measured
all he could measure, including jitter, of different
copies of the same CD(s).

He could not find anything strange, the high end CD
player has FIFOs, which keep the jitter constant and
minimum (low end is different story, but audiophiles
use high end).

In the end he could not figure it out what was the
reason why different copies of the same CD should
sound differently.

Next reply I'll tell you another of this stories.

bye,

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piergiorgio