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Originally Posted by BenjaminG
You sure can. But you're always going to be limited to CD technology which is stuck at 16bit and 44.1khz.
Digital downloads routinely offer 24 bit and much higher frequency response - up to 192khz, both of which are in the Blu-ray spec.
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High-res is important for transfer and restoration (edits).
For actual playback it's pointless. Human hearing at its best doesn't go above 20 khz (so a 40 khz sample rate in digital realm)
In a double blind test nobody would be able to tell the difference using the same source master. Placebo effect doesn't matter
That's why CD quality (44.1 khz) has been the standard for 35 years.
And even on Blu-ray the standard is 48 khz for almost all discs.
Same applies to the bit depth, the difference between 16 and 24 bit on a 44.1 or 48 khz quality recording is meaningless....
What matters is the quality of the original source master