16/44 recording provides a dynamic range of ~98dB. This easily exceeds the dynamic range of any performing group, even allowing the loss of some dynamic range to noise floor of the recording and playback equipment, etc.

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I used to have a hi-fi system but a few years ago decided to de-clutter my life and get rid of it all. Got good prices and simplified everything.

I am currently using just a little Fatman iTube valve (tube) amp and a small pair of Monitor Audio Bronze BR1s connected to my Panasonic DVD/CD/HD/Digital freeview/Digital radio box. Sounds pretty good for a smallish room...

Hello,

I'm a newbie and not a high end audiophile. It's been a long time since I had a good sounding stereo.

I want to put together a new system for my office. I can close the door and listen to music without interruption or spousal objection. Plus I've become accustomed to ripping music to my computer. I find it easier to use song lists and search for artists "online".

I recently bought a pair of NHT Classic 3 speakers. I'm driving them with an old Harman Kardon HK3500 receiver. I'd like to replace the amp and do something about my audio source.

APP wasn't my favorite group in the 1970s, but maybe it was because I couldn't hear it this way.

I listened in two-channel 24/192 and was blown away by the sonics. Close your eyes and the sound stage is 180-degrees wide. The fade at the end of "Genisis Ch.1V.32" slowly moves from covering and surrounding you with a HUGE wall of sound to fading into a very distant ball of sound that covers only about 5-degrees and seems like it's 400-yards away. Only in that final fade do you hear the tape hiss from the original master.

The high-end system I listened to yesterday had cable elevators. I noted my skepticism about their likely usefulness, and the high-end manufacturer I was talking to agreed. As it happened, the elevators on one side had fallen over and most of that speaker cable was on the floor. To the extent that that provided an A/B comparison, I could determine no difference in sound between the elevated and non-elevated. (the listening did include one mono track, BTW). Your concise reactions?

(For long & detailed, maybe better to post in the lengthy "perceptions" thread)