Nope, you're wrong. I can hear the difference between a 44.1kHz sampled recording and a 96kHz sampled recording. Every time. Consistently. 100% accuracy, 1.000 batting average. Perhaps I'm that Jesse's Uncle Bob to which you refer. The elusive "secondhand story", and yet, here I am, telling my own story, firsthand.
How about you read the post before running your mouth on a reply like this? CT was talking about the human ear not being able to detect 96kHz frequencies, not sampling rates. And if you tell me you can hear a 96kHz frequency, I will be inclined to laugh my face off.
No argument there, and guess who educated me? The local salesman was more helpful than you guys.
If your car audio education consists of taking a salesman's word as gospel, you have other problems. Salesmen are interested in one thing and one thing only: selling their product. If everyone listened to salespeople, this argument would not exist.
I mean, what if everyone around you started saying "the sky is purple". Would you say, "hey, maybe I'm wrong, maybe the sky isn't blue"? Or would you say, "bunch o nutters"?
Bad analogy on your part. You're saying you can hear a difference, and we're saying we don't believe you. I'm satisfied with you going your way and me going mine. But here's thie key: this whole thing is subjective. You may be able to say you hear a difference, but you can't put it on paper. At all. You have no scientific proof that you're right, and you have no scientific proof that we're wrong. If so many "audiophiles" can hear such subtle differences, why hasn't it been documented? Why are there no technical papers out saying that Krell amps are king because they really do sound better than everything else? On the flipside, Richard Clarke has published a paper about amplifiers and has issued a money-backed challenge. All amps don't sound the same. But two amps with precisely matched gains and power outputs on the same system setup WILL sound identical. Period. Take a tube amp and a solid-state amp, a MOSFET and non-MOSFET. The result will be the same. And if you find differently (by blind test, mind you), Clarke will hand you some serious cash.
Even FordXplod93 got it. Maybe he should be the mod.
No, I didn't "get it". I always have and always will disagree with you on this.
And I'd stay away from bashing CT if I were you. He's done this a lot longer than you or I have, and has always put his money where his mouth is. There is a reason why he he's the mod too. :cool:
~FordX