Raizau t1_iu42nyf wrote on October 28, 2022 at 12:18 PM

Reply to comment by hvperRL in Honest question, did we hit peak headphone a while back? by Yammy_Lyfe

So heres some of my personal audio engineer experiences.

They were telling us to record in the highest sample rate possible in 2013 to future proof our music in school
One of my friends is a sony engineer and he just records 44.1 24bit because sony doesnt really care about high resolution so neither does he. (At least at the mixing/mastering level, they are all happy to dumb hi rez stickers on everything though)

So lets put it this way. The industrial and acoustic engineers are pushing the tech for hi rez audio.(ez marketing and product value)

The recording engineers really dont care because the music recording division highers ups dont care.(most people are listening to ogg vorbis on spotify lol)

This is just my personal experience in the industry. There is a disconnect at a lot of big labels. They havent realized they can sell the music for double by just having the engineers change a check box at the start of the sesson.

Edit: i meant sample rate lol

SteakTree t1_iu4g3p8 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 2:05 PM

Bit rate is one thing. Having a higher bit rate lowers your noise level for each track. Useful for audio engineering and mastering. And even then well recorded 16bit files would still be fine with noise levels unlikely to be an issue.

For sampling rate, there is no need to go higher than 44.1/48kHz according to the Nyquist theorem.

Nadeoki t1_iu6p2xs wrote on October 28, 2022 at 11:32 PM

Nyquist theorem has been put into question more recently iirc.
DSD for one showing some ABX test results to not be entirely conclusive.

Nadeoki t1_iu6oxzs wrote on October 28, 2022 at 11:31 PM

But the community probably spending +500% that of average audio listeners cares about sampling rates and such. So maybe it would make sense to still make sure people actually release in high quality.

Some Soundcloud artists only have Mp3 LameV3 320kb/s releases and it really pisses me off to add them to my otherwise flac/DSD collection

hearechoes t1_iu4t5fd wrote on October 28, 2022 at 3:35 PM

I think the thing is, they can still just slap the high res sticker on the end to a file that was mastered to 24 bit 96khz+ and make the extra bucks, so what incentive do they have to record at higher sample rates in the tracking stage, which reduces the # of tracks/plugins they can use, increases bounce times, etc.