Yes, of course.   I was referring to sampling rate and the USB chip, otherwise they differ as the HD2 is powered by the dirty USB bus and has neither impedance matching nor any analog output stage.   HD2: AK4127 (SNR) - PCM1754 (DAC) HD20: AD1896 (SNR) - AD1955 (DAC)

The USB chip in HD2 is the same as in HD20, Hegel’s Anders Ertzeid explained the situation, using the HD2 as an example:     ...

Darwin was right... on the money.  

File over 10MB so.. http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-j23BqTscIdA/UAgAH_gnoHI/AAAAAAAAHOI/GJ_ocZxWX4I/s0/Wildebeest.gif

I was thinking more of transients and attack, which "is often forgotten in the traditional Fourier analysis based reasoning on sound characteristics".   Quote: http://www.zainea.com/physiologicalsound.htm

Can we boil down the question of this thread to CD's dynamic range at 96 dB vs. the "instantaneous dynamic range of human audio perception" at 85 dB?

Magma - Félicité Thösz (2012)  

I don't really know how much the different codecs have improved, but how can anyone tell... if AAC 256 VBR was transparent four years ago for some ears?   Well back in 2008 there was an article in Stereophile (from fig. 7 and downwards) about FLAC vs. AAC vs. MP3 that might be of interest...

Band: Alamaailman Vasarat - Valta (2012) Genre: Kebab-kosher-jazz-film-traffic-punk-music     3 tracks from the album: http://soundcloud.com/alamaailman-vasarat

Yes, it's all about the obsession over something minute that's different from the linear thinking as I've somewhat tried to explain in post #1006. To further elaborate.. it's about what we all are trying to latch on to and to some degree fail at.      ...

A key?

Good morning skimminst, Farmers Market I don't know how to describe.. a surreal soundtrack of a balkan wedding where someone has hired a somewhat nutty band inclined to dissonant surf metal.. or something.   Sure different from Rush - Clockwork Angels.. me thinks it probably better than...

Much of this has to do with motivation, but some sounds get dampened, but.. when getting into the elusive realm of those warm euphoric harmonies of high end all hell breaks loose. To go about it in a flowery way is not very productive, so I'll point to some interesting research.      ...

Farmers Market - Slav to the Rhythm (2012) DIVRECCD021  

Flamebait?   Well, I just quote Martin Braun...   Quote: http://www.neuroscience-of-music.se/eng6.htm