What this really shows is unless you're all set up in a good listening room, no distractions and using good equipment you would never hear any difference at all. This required silence and concentration and who really listens that way? Unless I'm playing mixing engineer I don't listen critically, I'm listening for relaxation and enjoyment and I'm actually surprised that I would be perfectly happy with the 128K Mp3's for that.
It's millennials who could really tell the differences if they actually cared. Sadly I doubt many would. Back in my day me and all my friends were all into high end and expensive stereo equipment. We could tell the differences between turntable cartridges, mid range speakers and high end ones, running tape at 15ips vs 7.5 and all that stuff.
Bob
Bob,
I pretty much agree with you on this. For the most part, to the degree possible for each person, musicians have trained ears - generally know what to listen for. Most audience members do not and really don't care. They just want you to play their favorite song - technical stuff totally irrelevant.
And yes, about the listening and recording gear back in the '70s, into the early '80s. There was always the discussion of what was better: Sansui, Pioneer, Fischer, etc. I had a complete Marantz system - 7 or 8 pieces. Even had a nice Gerard turntable at one point.
Alan
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