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.
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24 bit is also extremely easy to hear. Arguably more important during the recording phase when headroom is valuable.
Its just as easy to qualify everything with "placebo effect", as it is to be dismissive
Human hearing is limited to 20k because frequencies higher than that are perceived as painful? Dont agree with that one.
24 bit doesn't offer any advantages to sound quality? Sheesh.
And the crux of the argument is intermodulation distortion increases when you try to represent more frequencies? Isn't that an argument for a faster power amp?
The move from 16 bit to 24, however, is significant. And not only to headroom.
As far as SR systems, I really like how 96 can sound. And I'm more comfortable intuitively with considering the limit of human hearing somewhere closer to 24 or 25k than 22.