[jchrisa]

Have you tried listening to SACD? The high sample rate might not give you more reproduction of audible frequencies, but the difference in arrival times it can encode makes well recorded stereo stuff more interesting to listen to, in my limited experience.

[itp]

I know this seems counterintuitive, but there is literally no difference in arrival times (over audible frequencies) that can be encoded at higher sampling rates. Digital sampling does not quantize over the time domain for any frequency below the Nyquist frequency.

If you have the time, watch the two videos that xiph.org did a few years ago[0]. There's a great in-depth explanation, as well as a hands on demonstration to demonstrate this reality.

[0] https://xiph.org/video/

[__david__]

This is directly addressed by the article under the "Sampling fallacies and misconceptions". You don't lose "arrival time" (AKA phase) when you use a lower bitrate. They have a video that explains it very well: http://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml

[splitdisk]

I would be very curious to listen to SACD on some good headphones in a quiet room. Not sure if I've ever even seen a SACD player aside from maybe in the Sony store 10 years ago. The trick would be to find something that would be mastered for the format.

[nandemo]

Are you sure? Many so-called "universal" bluray players can play SACDs.

I got a Denon one. I haven't played any SACD on it yet (I got it for bluray), though I guess I could easily find some at that video rental store (in Tokyo).