“Results showed a small but statistically significant ability of test subjects to discriminate high resolution content, and this effect increased dramatically when test subjects received extensive training.”
Basically, people can just barely detect high res audio but it’s not much better than a coin flip. If you have lots of experience you’re more accurate but not by a whole lot.
Anyway 48kHz sampling can produce up to 24kHz and the human limit is like 20kHz. Most songs don’t have 96db of dynamic range, and 120db is hearing damage, so the idea that the average person can easily hear the difference is not true.
That’s why I didn’t mention the sample rate. You aren’t going to get really anything back increasing to 96 khz. But I promise you increasing the bit depth leads to a noticeable change in the perception of the recording. You’re not going to get anything from modern pop since it’s compressed to hell and back, but find a good recording of an album you’ve listened to a lot and find some decent, wired headphones and try an A/B of a 16 and 24 bit mix. You’ll see what I mean.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304572591_A_Meta-Analysis_of_High_Resolution_Audio_Perceptual_Evaluation
“Results showed a small but statistically significant ability of test subjects to discriminate high resolution content, and this effect increased dramatically when test subjects received extensive training.”
Basically, people can just barely detect high res audio but it’s not much better than a coin flip. If you have lots of experience you’re more accurate but not by a whole lot.
Anyway 48kHz sampling can produce up to 24kHz and the human limit is like 20kHz. Most songs don’t have 96db of dynamic range, and 120db is hearing damage, so the idea that the average person can easily hear the difference is not true.
That’s why I didn’t mention the sample rate. You aren’t going to get really anything back increasing to 96 khz. But I promise you increasing the bit depth leads to a noticeable change in the perception of the recording. You’re not going to get anything from modern pop since it’s compressed to hell and back, but find a good recording of an album you’ve listened to a lot and find some decent, wired headphones and try an A/B of a 16 and 24 bit mix. You’ll see what I mean.