oh, look who's all "weepy", and "threatening" ???

Thank you. I'd star this if Kinja didn't SUCK like 18-bit audio.

you know what i say? your hatred of "audio snobs" makes you look stupid - because neil young is driving around in 1970's cadillac, and bands sit in studios or tourbusses and they are raving about pono.

Randyman, I completely agree with you. Not long before this post, I posted my thoughts on the matter. Apparently my comments were deleted because I insinuated the author does not understand the field of psychoacoustics and audio engineering.

you're an idiot. why do you hate HD audio? do you own an HD TV? computer monitor? smartphone? all HD viewing.

I share the same opinion as Randyman.

You wrote this article as a statement of fact, if not entirely, then almost so. You acknowledge there is debate, then state it is unnecessary. Thank you for deciding its worthiness - we are wholly incapable of making those kinds of decisions for ourselves (a sarcasm font would be most helpful here). Whatever.

Someone who actually makes music. You don't find people like that these days. You've probably never actually heard real music before, so he wouldn't come up on your radar. Go back to your Nickleback, and get off my lawn, ya dang kid!

Or maybe he just loves music, understands the power of sound, and wants people to stop being sold overcompressed crap that doesn't even sound close to what we should have.

This is ridiculous. You obviously do not know what you are talking about if you reckon a 24 bit file of any commonly used sample rate will not sound any better than a CD at 16/44.1. Please don't spread stuff like this as people who don't know any better may believe you have a point, causing mythical misunderstandings…

Hey Mario,
The scientific approach would be as follows: get a bunch of people and do a blind test. Get a bunch of audiophiles and see if people can hear the difference and pick out the high-res recordings. You could also get non-audiophiles and and play them two recordings at different resolutions and ask which they…

What makes YOU an authority on digital audio, Mario Aguilar, besides quoting Monty Montgomery. I haven't read such a pedantic piece of ignorant content since a long time. Get lost, you arrogant fool.

I wouldn't would get too technical with Gizmodo's bloggers. Most of what Giz post is often inaccurate and mostly an opinionated article.

Some of which is entertaining and cute at times, but sometimes, just sometimes, they really do venture off into the deep end.

What a fucking idiot reply. Where's the science waaah!

Perhaps when you understand Calculus and the difference between analog and digital. Seriously? How sampling works? Didn't bother. You are not only wrong but ignorant. Science? It's called the electric / magnetic field. Digital sampling is a man-made thing designed to replicate that. CDs were by far not the first…

Ehm, just to start: Your headline is pretty biased, "daddy-o". You take off with a claim. Then you back it up a few times by using the same man's quotes. Conveniently enough you skip all real "science" yourself.
The fact that the universe's audial spectrum is infinately bigger than cd specs (that btw, were written in…

I'm sorry but that type of response is simply obnoxious and does not respond to the points he made

As an audio engineer, musician, live sound technician, audiophile, music lover, amateur physicist, I can honestly say that you're wrong on many levels, and that you really need to do your research instead of just assuming that CD quality audio is the gold standard. There have been several studies done in recent years…

Mario, I'm genuinely appalled by some of the information presented as gospel in this piece. The so-called CD-quality "standard" exists for one reason: a corporate muckymuck wanted all of Beethoven's 9th to fit on one disk.

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