1. There is a lot more to music reproduction than just the high frequencies. Speed, decay, tone, pace, spatial cues, etc. Listening ability and experience may be more important than acuity and frequency range in determining “quality” of reproduction. That said, it is possible or even likely that different age ears find different presentations more pleasing that others.
2. Agree ability to distinguish differences in sound reproduction is equipment dependent. Which is essentially the purpose of this site.
3. I have found some 128kbps music files sound more pleasing to me than double that because of the remix for the lower resolution, but that is highly track dependent and I definitely could hear a difference in any case.
4. Generally I find I like the sound of higher res digital music files better than redbook or mp3s, and find they sound closer to good quality vinyl than lesser res digital files, and this is listening across several different systems. YMMV.
kn
2. Agree ability to distinguish differences in sound reproduction is equipment dependent. Which is essentially the purpose of this site.
3. I have found some 128kbps music files sound more pleasing to me than double that because of the remix for the lower resolution, but that is highly track dependent and I definitely could hear a difference in any case.
4. Generally I find I like the sound of higher res digital music files better than redbook or mp3s, and find they sound closer to good quality vinyl than lesser res digital files, and this is listening across several different systems. YMMV.
kn