To me it depends on your use. If you’re making high quality productions for potential commercial use, the Audiophile would be the way to go. If on the other hand you are like me simply knocking out a few backing tracks that’ll be played though a PA to a room full of noisy people with nobody really listening closely or putting tracks on social media where they are highly compressed why go to the expense.

There is some interesting discussion as to the normal 44.1k wav file is in fact a true representation of music. The real purist would say analogue is nearly good enough and even then there is some alteration of the signal. Most folk cannot really hear the difference however.

My thoughts
Tony

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