xiphmont’s ‘There is no point to distributing music in 24 bit/192 kHz’, Article: “24/192 Music Downloads are Very Silly Indeed” Options

[NullC]

Of interest, but certainly not news to anyone here is Monty's educational piece regarding the lack of value of 24/192 as a distribution format:

http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

Some of the commentary on the internet has been not especially well informed, for example there are some crazy claims at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3668310. If you're in a "someone is wrong on the internet!" correcting mood, you might want to go leave some comments in furtherance of the collective intelligence of mankind.

Cheers

[hellokeith]

Does the statement of the benefits of mixing/mastering >44/16 also extend to recording? Or record at 44/16 and then upconvert for mixing/mastering?

[icstm]

Does the statement of the benefits of mixing/mastering >44/16 also extend to recording? Or record at 44/16 and then upconvert for mixing/mastering?

BTW, did we get an asnwer to this?
I agree that mixing needs to be >than 44/16, but you raise an interesting question about recording.

I would like to use image processing as an analogue to this.

RAW does not only offer lossless over JPEG, it also offers the ability to store a wider range of spectrum (Blacker and Black / whiter than white / highlights / shadows / clipping /crushed and all the other terms you see in this space). When doing your mixing (or post processing) then this additional information is beneficial.

I would suggest that the same applied here that to get the most of your mixing, ie your post processing, you would want as much information as possible.

However, the difference here maybe that the dynamic range of a jpeg is not high enough let alone the fact it is lossy.

[drewfx]

I would suggest that the same applied here that to get the most of your mixing, ie your post processing, you would want as much information as possible.

No. You would only want as much information as necessary. Any information that, after all mixing/processing/etc., doesn't make it to the (audible portion of the) output only wastes time/resources without adding or improving anything.