[BC] CD vs LP

[Robert Orban]

At 03:31 PM 9/21/2008, Broadcast List USER wrote:
>It just reinforces the fact that 44.1 kHz sampling was far too low,
>and 16 bit linear was just dumb on its face.

Meyer and Moran would beg to differ:


Audibility of a CD-Standard A/DA/A Loop Inserted into High-Resolution 
Audio Playback
JAES Volume 55 Issue 9 pp. 775-779; September 2007
[Engineering Report] Claims both published and anecdotal are 
regularly made for audibly superior sound quality for two-channel 
audio encoded with longer word lengths and/or at higher sampling 
rates than the 16-bit/44.1-kHz CD standard. The authors report on a 
series of double-blind tests comparing the analog output of 
high-resolution players playing high-resolution recordings with the 
same signal passed through a 16-bit/44.1-kHz "bottleneck." The tests 
were conducted for over a year using different systems and a variety 
of subjects. The systems included expensive professional monitors and 
one high-end system with electrostatic loudspeakers and expensive 
components and cables. The subjects included professional recording 
engineers, students in a university recording program, and dedicated 
audiophiles. The test results show that the CD-quality A/D/A loop was 
undetectable at normal-to-loud listening levels, by any of the 
subjects, on any of the playback systems. The noise of the CD-quality 
loop was audible only at very elevated levels.
Authors:   Meyer, E. Brad; Moran, David R.
Affiliation:   Boston Audio Society, Lincoln, MA, USA