Scytus
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Gizmodo is wrong. They may be right that the 24 bit we get could be a con, but they are way way wrong about how great CD potential is. The CD standard, 44 k sampling or whatever, is greatly surpassed by the 96/192 audiophile tracks being supplied to subscribers of some services now. Stereophile has a lot of info on that.
audiophiles = suckers?!
send the author of the article to the gallows!!!!!!!
From the article;
"Which is where Dr. Dre comes in. The hip-hop producer has offered his Beats headphones to audiophiles for some years..."
Sorry, did I miss that memo? Or have I entered some alternate universe? Where Dr. Dre Beats feature regularly in the High End thread and SkyLab has them plugged into his Leben because his R10's just weren't cutting it.
Bah.
Why are they superior exactly? (I'm not saying they aren't, I'm just highly skeptical)
There's an article in the Feb. 2011 Stereophile on page 37 that explains pretty well. Someone even got the Audio Engineering Society involved, who are usually a bit slow to adopt any new ideas.
Here's a neat little article on 24 -vs- 16 as well, noting that if you can hear the difference between an MP3 and an uncompressed track, you can hear those other differences too. A Google search for 24/192 quality turns up some good stuff.
http://www.tweakheadz.com/16_vs_24_bit_audio.htm