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Re:There is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz ... by scott_s on Monday March 05, 2012 @08:19PM (#3669233)
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.
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Re:There is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz ... by alanh on Monday March 05, 2012 @11:39PM (#3669666)
I’m going to go ahead and say yes, that seems to be blatant sarcasm, or at least, reference to placebo effect / being a sucker.
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Re:There is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz ... by scott_s on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @03:02PM (#3672582)
The difficulty I had is that the same person claimed they could hear the difference between 44 kHz and 96 kHz, when the article (and all other comments which cited outside sources) claims that is well outside of human capability.
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