oktoberpaard

In a distant past I liked to compare hires tracks with the normal ones. It turned out that they often used a different master with more dynamic range for the hires release, tricking the listener into thinking it sounded different because of the high bitrate and sampling frequency. The second step was to convert the high resolution track to standard 16 bit 44.1 kHz and do a/b testing to prove my point to friends.

I’m not sure if I ever heard that one, but that’s indeed nonsensical. ISO 216 is a very nice system, though, and used in most of the world, not just Europe.