24/192 Music Downloads are Very Silly Indeed ⇥

Christoper Montgomery clears up the many misconceptions of digital audio. He cites a study that compared a variety of audio formats and qualities:

In 554 trials, listeners chose correctly 49.8% of the time. In other words, they were guessing.

Precisely. And this was only with 16-bit audio. Virtually nobody can tell the difference, and almost no consumer-grade equipment can replicate it.