[masklinn]

> Human hearing is limited to 20k because frequencies higher than that are perceived as painful? Dont agree with that one.

You misread the article. It's because there is so little response that being able to hear it would blow your eardrums (and even then, it might still be beyond your ability to hear it). There's no value in that.

> 24 bit doesn't offer any advantages to sound quality? Sheesh.

Not quite what TFA says. According to the article, 16 bits effectively covers the dynamic range of human hearing, so more than that is pointless for music consumed by human beings (hence all the stuff about 24bit being a good idea for mastering & production). If you're storing integers in the 0~16384 range, going from 16 bit integers to 32 bit ones is not going to give you "better ints", it's just going to waste 2 bytes per int. Same thing here.

[coopersloan]

I can admit that I misread the article when it comes to hearing limits. I was reacting to my perception as an audio engineer that a lot of people dismiss the importance of that frequency range.

[lwat]

With good reason!