I'm an audiophile, but what use is a 24/44 vinyl recording? Someone needs some common sense and some technical background.

If it's a new recording just gimme some 24/96 masters. If I like it I will buy the vinyl myself.

In honesty, i can't tell the difference from a 16/44 to anything above that!... All sounds the same to me..

I'm a musician with perfect pitch and pretty superb hifi equipment and I will tell you, anyone who claims they can tell the difference between 16/44 and 24/96 is full of shit. I guarantee if you do a double blind study the results will be 50/50 because the human ear is simply not capable of distinguishing between sounds that accurately. It's the same reason I think vinyl is a complete waste of time to begin with, but I guess that's personal preference as some people like the noisy muffled "warm" sound of vinyl for some reason.

Also, you titled this torrent wrong. Only way I was able to find this torrent was by leaving out "memories" in my query.

Why are they labeled mp3 if they're FLAC?

As far as the whole 16/44 vs. 24/96 thing, you really need good headphones, amp, and DAC to take advantage of that type of hi-fi. Most people just use crappy headphones with on-board sound, with no amp or DAC.

Of course there are some frequencies humans can't hear, but that doesn't change the fact that the frequencies we can't hear can change how we perceive the frequencies that are audible.

Either way, lossless is the only way to go, because even with shitty headphones & a shitty source, I can tell the difference between lossy and lossless.

Also I assume some people who download 24/96 music don't actually go into their soundcard or DAC, and music player properties/manager and actually change their format to match their music, so their music is being down-sampled.

@anonabyss for someone who claims to be a musician and cannot tell the difference between twice or half the music quality is in the wrong game pal. You're in the wrong category - maybe the mp3 files are more suited to you. Or maybe a decent hifi system and some ear wax drops will do the trick bang on.

Thanks bubanee, although Jeep is right - a 24/96 would be much more useful. Even though generally people who claim to be "audiophiles" are not.

@bunderson: their is no linear correlation between sample rate, bit depth, and perceived quality. There IS a correlation, but it is probably logarithmic. So saying double this and double that are twice the quality is simply a falsehood. The transducer has an upper limit to IT'S conformity to the waveform, and acts as a low-pass filter, with resonance. You can buy the best speakers on earth, and they will still do the same, just ever so closer...but they can never achieve perfect.

@futureshock999 do some research. I spend most of my life in recording studios and know for a fact that when you downsample from ANY bit rate/khz, you dither to introduce noise to fill in the gaps. Surely you can't dispute this? When you have spent days if not weeks listening to studio master files then hear the same track halved in bit depth and sample rate, the effect smacks you like a brick in the face.

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If you are playing and ripping blu-rays on an 8-core AMD or 6 core Intel processor PC with liquid cooler, USB 3.0 ports, DDR3 Memory in chips that can bring the system to 32GB of RAM, with 2 nVidia 2GB video processors installed parallell, your system is likely enabled to play action games and blu-ray movies, and HDMI-out is capable of carrrying a DTS-HD Audio Lossless Master from a blu-ray for top-notch lossless 7.1 surround audio to your ampifier/Home Theater System. Most of us once we leave our parents homes and the bedrooms they provide for us, have the option to listen to music on something besides an iPod or laptop, and are not limited to tinny canned sound if we can go to school or find a decent job, or save our dollars for something that plays sound in the entire room, instead of inside your ear canal headphones. You will probably find that this is an all new kind of listening pleasure worth investing in.

Sorry my comment is so freakin' long. I have OCD and once I get started thinking about something I can't stop until I think I have reached some sort of logical conclusion, a place that can meander just about anywhere before I finally end up there. Be grateful you are not afflicted with this compulsion.

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If you are playing and ripping blu-rays on an 8-core AMD or 6 core Intel processor PC with liquid cooler, USB 3.0 ports, DDR3 Memory in chips that can bring the system to 32GB of RAM, with 2 nVidia 2GB video processors installed parallell, your system is likely enabled to play action games and blu-ray movies, and HDMI-out is capable of carrrying a DTS-HD Audio Lossless Master from a blu-ray for top-notch lossless 7.1 surround audio to your ampifier/Home Theater System. Most of us once we leave our parents homes and the bedrooms they provide for us, have the option to listen to music on something besides an iPod or laptop, and are not limited to tinny canned sound if we can go to school or find a decent job, or save our dollars for something that plays sound in the entire room, instead of inside your ear canal headphones. You will probably find that this is an all new kind of listening pleasure worth investing in.

Sorry my post is so long, I have OCD, and once I get started thinking about a topic, I am compelled to continue with it until it carries out to what I consider is some sort of logical conclusion, which could meander just about anyplace before arriving there. It is very annoying and a terrible burden to live with. Be very grateful if you are not afflicted with OCD yourself.

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