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RE: DVD-Audio at 96kHz vs 192kHz...can you tell a difference?

Posted by Botanico92007 (A) on January 3, 2009 at 09:51:30

In Reply to: DVD-Audio at 96kHz vs 192kHz...can you tell a difference? posted by mtrot on January 3, 2009 at 00:43:29:

I can tell the difference. See my reviews of the Everest reissues by Classics Records. Just search using my username in this forum. I always find the 24/192kHz tracks the best.

It's not an in-your-face obvious difference, especially if you are only listening for dynamic range and bass response. You are need a system that will reveal the differences and an ear trained to listen for the right things. And, of course, the kind of music makes a big difference. Orchestral music is the most revealing, but so is solo piano.

The differences: less glare and edge, easy to hear on violins and high notes on the piano; wider and deeper soundstage; more bloom on the sound;
more 3-dimensionality and expansion of the sound at climaxes; high frequencies that float and slowly decay, easy to hear on triangle and cymbals; more texture in the sound so instruments sound more like themselves; a truer sense of the body of an instrument; finer microdynamics at low levels; and others.

Of course, the original recording needs to have captured all of the things I mentioned. A digital 16/44.1kHz recording will show only a slight improvement if upsampled. It gets rid of some of the digital nasties, but can't fill in information missing in the original recording. It's really about density of information. The best way to compare it to listen to live, unamplified sound. Otherwise it's hard to know.

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