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What’s your favorite streaming resolution?  I find when streaming hi-rez files the best resolution for me is 24/44.1 or 48.  Anything higher like 96 or 192 sounds to sanitary.  It’s almost lifeless.  It doesn’t reveal more for me it’s sounds flat and to precise.  At 48kHz - that is the sweet spot for me.  The music is lively and revealing and this is across genres. Do you have a preference? What are your experiences ?

polkalover
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ghdprentice
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Interesting observation. I have not noticed that. What I noticed is that details and image specificity get better with higher resolution . Maybe it is equipment dependent. 

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gkelly
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When I had a budget streamer could not listen to something low res. I would always be on the lookout for a 48 or a 96 as they sounded good. Now that I have upgraded, I rarely look for the Hi-Rez symbol and even less about the bit rate. Still have a hard time listening to anything that that’s not contemporary. Hopefully AI can come along and fix this. I hear the recording industry uses AI for mixing and mastering recordings. I wonder if somebody could invent a box that you could put in your system that would use AI to correct all the Faults of old recordings. 

soix
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I find the quality of the recording matters more than sample rate and bit rate matters more than sample rate. 

12many
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Same as Soix. 

For analytical listening high res helps but for enjoyment, quality of recording matters the most or I suppose it is emotion and musicality.  Some recordings from 30 to 40 years ago are amazing and of course, some are terrible.  I really enjoy listening to older music that I had only listened to previously on low quality (stuff I could afford) systems and how amazing the tracks on good gear sound.  

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