Quote Originally Posted by Light Dependant Resistor View Post
What you are missing is that audio in the spectrum we hear is changed detrimentally, where frequency response is filtered. https://earthworksaudio.com/wp-conte...yond-20kHz.pdf
There's nothing in that article offering anything other than speculation to back that claim up. And the bloke does have a business selling extended bandwidth mics to the recording industry. of course recording at high sampling and bit rates makes perfect sense, it just makes no sense for playback.

If we are going to say that we need frequencies above 22Khz to be able to hear music properly, what about all the recordings, pop, rock, jazz, classical made with equipment that did not have that bandwith - i.e all the great recordings of history? is 'Kind Of Blue' now not worth listening too because the SQ is awful? Deep Purple 'In Rock'? - now worthless, sounds rubbish.

Sorry, but this makes absolutely no sense, either theoretically or practically. Even if we make a leap of faith and believe there would be a difference had these recordings been made with a bandwidth of 40Khz the difference, at best, would be infinitesimal as far as our perception is concerned.