"Fed Up Lurker" wrote in message
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I did a quick search on "Hi-Def sound", then widened it to "Hi-Def audio",
try it, you'll get results covering everything from Dolby/DTS, through to
Blu-Ray, SACD etc etc, covering 16/48, 24/96, 24/192, etc. But the Beebs
claim isn't anything more than a compressed stream at a higher bit rate.
You didn't fall for the BBC guff did you Ken?


Well I'm not falling for *your* guff!

I deprecate the use of the term "high definition" in respect to audio as
it's meaning is anything but clear. Anyway is "definition" what we want from
audio? what's wrong with the old-fashioned "fidelity", we know what that
means, the reproduced sound being faithful to the original.

It's easy to throw numbers at digital audio, 96k/192k, 16bit/24bit/32bit
etc, but it's all meaningless unless there is a subjective improvement. And
I'm far from convinced that these larger numbers actually make for improved
subjective results under normal listening conditions.

David.