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Gear / Technical Help => Ask The Tapers => Topic started by: Petrus on September 05, 2007, 04:57:46 AM
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It would be interesting to see if somebody really could tell 16/44.1 from 24/96 recording.
It would be fairly easy to try:
- make a 3-5 min long high quality 24/96 recording with a good recorder (like SD722) using good microphones in a quiet place (to get max dynamic range).
- cut the audio in 30 sec segments
- convert one random segment to 16/44.1 and save it
- reconvert it back to 24/96
- splice all segments back together
- listen and try to tell where the modified segment is.
The file could be placed somewere in the net for people to upload.
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Good idea, Petur.
Not quite the same test, but I think useful nonetheless: I have the same sample clips at 24/48 and 16/48 in my dither comparison I created some time ago (with a single comparison of 16/44 since R8Brain wouldn't dither without also resampling). I ABX'd the original 24/48 v. several of the dithered 16/48 and found it pretty easy to distinguish the differences. Was the difference jaw-dropping? I don't think so. But did I like what I heard at 24b v. 16b? Yup. Files here:
ftp: tapers.org
login: ftp4all
pass: ftp4all
dir: /drive1/_gear_comparisons/dither.flac
Files named *_master are the original 24/48, the other file names are somehow descriptive of the dither algo used to get down to 16-bit (see text file for more info).
For reference: original download thread (http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,51476.0.html), original discussion thread (http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,51478.0.html)