Theoretically I am big fan of getting the last and sometimes unheard benefit from the most data and very high resolution. This is because I am a "audiophile" or whatever you want to call people who give a S**t about the sound quality of their music they listen to.
I belong to a couple of other audio sites and there we know that we are chasing the very last of potential improvements of better sound quality. There is a common understanding acknowledgement that 80- 90% is available and usually easy to acquire by most interested people like us and even inexpensively at that.(the use of percentage is just a coomon convention usedby many there is of course no measurable parameter that yields % of SQ) We are simply at a place where there are very limited returns by employing some top notch frequently, someof it crazily expensive gear and tweaks. It should be abundantly clear that for many of us that we have reached a place of diminishing returns.
At this time, with our associated gear and our physiologically limited ability to hear, we are chasing a few small incremental improvements, we call it that last 2- 5%. This is not meant to imply thatfuture gains could be of a much greater magnitude as our hobby and industry are always innovating. Also let me state that changing from one really good amp tp another for example, that wholesale differences can be easily heard, same with headphones. What I am referring to are people with stable systems which they are committed to as their favorite, call it mature systems. The high rate of data may be difficult to ascertain. What I am saying is, that at this juncture, I think we are making limited headway given the SQ and certain limitations. That does mean however that if you are really into this hobby which for me has been lifetime (I bought the first Stax :Electret when they first came out and already owned a "high End" stereo I was 17 at the time.) that you should forgo the most detailed information you can get, it may push your system up a small notch not now perhaps, but later on you may have gear that will make it worth the storage space and other inconvenience. Sorry about the sermon- Steve
