Highest resolution without quantization noise

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If you can hear it sighted, you should be able to identify it from only the sound.

Yes, I think so as well, but you can't "cheat" by asking random people to identify, they will not hear anything since we must know what we are supposed to be listening for, if we don't know that we will not hear it.

Julf said:
It doesn't matter what technique you use, as long as you make sure the listeners don't know what they are listening to ///

You must entertain the idea that it matters a lot, the techniques differ, after all.
 
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The funny thing is that in many cases, people who can hear differences sighted can't tell them when listening in a double-blind ///

Funny, why?


Julf said:
/// science is evidence-based ///

Research and advancement in the unknown does not need any evidence at all.

If you want to research which bird is the most intelligent, you will need to study every single bird on earth to arrive at evidence.

That's like waiting for a lawnmower to cover 10,000 football fields, honestly who has time for that.

Just look at the birds and listen to folktale.
 
Funny, why?

Its common amongst the people at the 'objectivist' end to deny placebo. For example it was only last week I think that I replied to Doug Self who'd posted that he'd noticed a lot of 'imagined differences' between amplifiers. So I'd conjecture that they've not got their collective heads around placebo's existence, even less how it operates and so it seems like 'magic' that the differencess disappear in blind conditions.
 
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Julf is now resorting to funny pictures / attempts at ridicule and dismissing / covering up the real truth.

As self-titled scientists have done countless times in the past.

Like actively hiding evidence to defend the Christopher Columbus theory.

Nowhere near neutral.
 
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Here you go - its already nearly 1200 posts and still going strong - Conclusive "Proof" that higher resolution audio sounds different
Thanks. Had a quick look there then followed the links to the original threads on AVS. I'm not surprised someone could hear the difference. It's always seemed to me that 44.1KHz was too close to the edge for "perfect" reproduction. Sure, most people can't hear anything above about 20KHz, but that doesn't mean some can't hear above 20KHz.

OTOH, Arny has a valid point too - the audible differences could have been caused by HF intermodulation in the replay system.
 
No, the blockiness you hear is the fact that the keyboard cross-blend between a small number of samples for the acoustic grand at different levels. The "lack" of resolution can only be heard as added background noise..
Interesting ... you're talking velocities here, meaning that that a note played at maximum force should have no blending, and hence no discernable artifacts, correct? If so, I'll create a MIDI
with notes at different volumes and see what tells me ...
 
Interesting ... you're talking velocities here, meaning that that a note played at maximum force should have no blending, and hence no discernable artifacts, correct? If so, I'll create a MIDI
with notes at different volumes and see what tells me ...

There is probably (depending of keyboard model) a blending over time between attack, decay, sustain and release segments (sometimes several per section).

What really is a good exercise is to take a 16-bit waveform, attenuate it by 24, 48 and 72 dB and again amplify it back to the original volume (yielding 12, 8 and 4-bit waveforms). Listening to them is an educating experience.
 
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