“Results showed a small but statistically significant ability of test subjects to discriminate high resolution content, and this effect increased dramatically when test subjects received extensive training.”
Basically, people can just barely detect high res audio but it’s not much better than a coin flip. If you have lots of experience you’re more accurate but not by a whole lot.
Anyway 48kHz sampling can produce up to 24kHz and the human limit is like 20kHz. Most songs don’t have 96db of dynamic range, and 120db is hearing damage, so the idea that the average person can easily hear the difference is not true.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304572591_A_Meta-Analysis_of_High_Resolution_Audio_Perceptual_Evaluation
“Results showed a small but statistically significant ability of test subjects to discriminate high resolution content, and this effect increased dramatically when test subjects received extensive training.”
Basically, people can just barely detect high res audio but it’s not much better than a coin flip. If you have lots of experience you’re more accurate but not by a whole lot.
Anyway 48kHz sampling can produce up to 24kHz and the human limit is like 20kHz. Most songs don’t have 96db of dynamic range, and 120db is hearing damage, so the idea that the average person can easily hear the difference is not true.