Are high sample rates making your music sound worse?

mzkmxcv
“I listen, and I’ve never heard a difference with going to 24Bit or changing speaker wires (well, I admit nothing fancy like $5000 cables). Now, if you hear a difference, whose right? Well, since simple math and measurements shows that we shouldn’t hear a difference, I would argue I am.”

>>>>In the example you gave I’d say he’s right, not you. Lots of people cannot hear lots of things. You can’t prove a negative. Nothing succeeds like success. 🤗

@geoffkait

If someone says the midrange is more pronounced with new speaker wire, where an SPL meter or a measurement mic shows no volume differences, whose right?

Just how headphone burn-in isn’t real, a $500 USB cable won’t sound better than a $20 one (well, I’ll be careful, the sound coming out using the $500 cable won’t be different than the $20 one).

I already gave you my answer. I don’t get involved in these “what about this? what about that?” type discussions.

Just to throw my towel in the ring here.

Just placed into my system an Ayon S3 streamer/ server.
This has the ability to upsample 16/44 to 24/192 on the fly.

So last night was comparing the effects on some well known to myself music and this is what I heard whether it can be measured or not.

At 24/192 the music was smoothed out for want of better description. Some of the common CD glare and harshness was tamed, really noticeable on cymbals.
For me I preferred the majority of the 16/44 I upsampled to 24/192.
A few better recorded tracks did not seem to benefit although the change did not seem to be detrimental either.
YMMV 

That’s funny. You throw your hat in the ring. But maybe throwing in the towel does make more sense. 😛