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Do you always download the highest possible audio files? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by xiaozhian@alien.top to c/headphones@hi-fi.community
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Even though you can't tell the differences.

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[–] Regular-Cheetah-8095@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

You can’t even hear half of 44.1khz unless you’re not human. Differentiating bit rates above 16 require lab conditions, being a professional trained listener and being blasted with severe hearing damage levels of audio in 1-2 second snippets - That gets better than a coin flip. Sometimes. There is no exception to this. None. You do not hear anything different because it’s impossible. The human ear has limitations regarding frequencies and resolutions and these would be within those limitations.