I've been told on this forum that I wouldn't be able to hear the difference between Redbook and an MP3 on a mobile system.sound better than the same disc played via redbook in a mobile system such as Acura's ELS? Has anyone ever tried/compared them?
Thanks Jon. Have you ever done a stereo SACD to a DVD-A file? Saw MFSL SACD of Anticipation and wondered how such a capture might sound in the Acura.
I've been told on this forum that I wouldn't be able to hear the difference between Redbook and an MP3 on a mobile system.
If both the SACD and CD were created from the exact same master they would sound the same.sound better than the same disc played via redbook in a mobile system such as Acura's ELS? Has anyone ever tried/compared them?
If you recorded the SACD at 24/96, then created a DVD-Audio from those files, you would have to assume that the resulting playback would sound better than a commercially purchased CD (at 16/44)
If you recorded the SACD at 24/48 to .flac to play in the ELS 3D System in the 2019/2020 Acura, then again, I would say that it would sound better than a CD, as there is more info in the files than on the CD.
If you made a CD out of the SACD recorded at 24/96, downsampling to 16/44, then that would be debatable.
I will have respectfully disagree with most of what you said unfortunately. There are the subjective and objective/facts/science based parts to this. For the objective part, first question would be whether the mastering (bit depth/ resolution aside) in the red book layer was different than the that of the SACD and the OP actually preferred the SACD mastering 2) As for the 24/96 "recording", that will depend on the SNR/fidelity of the chain i.e. analog out to A/D conversion which will most definitely be no better than 20 bits. In fact, I would say might be likely no better than 16-18 bits. It could actually be worse than 16 bits over all. There are no true 24 bit ADC/DACs. At best they are doing @20-21 bits.
As for the subjective part, which we can all argue about, assuming you got the best conversion possible, I find it hard to believe that one would be able to tell or actually measure the difference in car especially with road and engine noise which will easily drown out any fine details. In fact "mere" red book CD has far more dynamic range (96 dB+) than necessary for a car environment (and for that matter most environments, but I wont go there). I personally find very high dynamic range (CD) classical recordings to be problematic in the car, soft part are almost inaudible and loud parts blow out ear drums. Thus, I doubt the added resolution is any use.
Now for multichannel that is a different story.
I would say for car save the space and stick with 16/44.1 or 16/48.
Are you sure they were the same mastering? Level-matched? Double-blind ABX tested? That last bit might be the most important. Bias is probably the biggest factor....I would from time to time play a CD, then play the stereo layer of the same album from a DVD-Audio, and to me, it sounded better.
The primary benefit of higher resolutions is in recording, mixing, and mastering. That said, there are technical advantages to maintaining resolution from start-to-finish, and other possibly audible advantages to high resolution playback, but can you actually hear the difference? Survey says: unlikely.But if a source file created at true 24/96 stereo did not "sound better" than a 16/44 file created from the CD, then what would be the point of SACD and/or DVD-Audio, BluRay Audio, or HDTracks?
But that's apples-to-oranges. The apples-to-apples would be the same mix/master of Morph The Catâor any surround mixâin lossless vs. lossy. In a compromised noisy environment like the car, the odds of being able to pick out one from the other in a double-blind ABX test are probably no better than a coin flip.And if you think I cannot hear the difference between a 5.1 DVD-Audio like "Morph the Cat" compared to any DTS 5.1 CD, even with my shitty hearing, then I would have to "strongly" disagree.
I doubt this is true anymore, even if it once was. With SACDs being the province of audiophile labels, hybrids generally use the same mastering on both CD and SACD stereo layers. I personally only own one hybrid SACD with a different, more dynamic mastering on the SACD stereo layer: Spyro Gyra's Original Cinema.For a hybrid SACD, the CD layer and the SACD stereo layer are mastered with different dynamic range compression usually...
As long as you recognize that. I think it's important to say, "I think I can hear a difference," or, "I perceive a difference," rather than, "I can hear a difference."I'm happy with the Higher Rez, even if it makes me feel better mentally. Could be all that there is to it!
As long as you recognize that. I think it's important to say, "I think I can hear a difference," or, "I perceive a difference," rather than, "I can hear a difference."
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