Just posting some stuff for the sake of keeping the flame going.
There is plenty of evidence/paper/tests that show that the human brain can detect frequencies higher than 60hz. While the improvement is much smaller when you go to from 60hz to 120hz than when you go from 30hz to 60hz, it's still there.
Some good reads:
A big example of where you need more than 60hz is the Oculus Rift (as told in the second link), since the screen doesn't update fast enough when you move your head. Obviously the effect is much smaller with a desktop monitor, as you aren't moving your head and expect the screen to keep on.
Another thing to be told is that usually a much bigger improvement over more hz is strobing (nvidia call their implementation lightboost) since it reduced image redention/ghosting by a lot.
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As for the music quality, flac and similar are placebo*. That's pretty much it.
A nice article on music quality is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20140524...eil-young.html (it's more about a bigger sampling frequency than bitrate, but still worth a read).
Also http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Transparency
Why the *? Because usually people download .flac files from a source that used a better master/mixing that the one found in "recent" cds. Also, tons of .mp3 and similar one could download from the internet are very badly encoded and taken from "dubious" sources.
There's also the problem with encoders, many sucks.
If you want to see it by yourself, get a .flac of your favorite song, convert it to .mp3 v0 with lame, and then use a double-blind testing program to see if you can manage to find the .flac file without cheating.
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My two cents, enjoy.
Oh, by the way, I like that finally Tizen is getting shipped. Maybe between the recent improvements on iOS 8, Samsung shipping Tizen, Windows Phone getting better and Jolla/Firefox OS Google will finally move forward with Android. I feel that we've been getting only small/minor updates lately (and for lately I mean the latest 2/3 major releases).
There is plenty of evidence/paper/tests that show that the human brain can detect frequencies higher than 60hz. While the improvement is much smaller when you go to from 60hz to 120hz than when you go from 30hz to 60hz, it's still there.
Some good reads:
A big example of where you need more than 60hz is the Oculus Rift (as told in the second link), since the screen doesn't update fast enough when you move your head. Obviously the effect is much smaller with a desktop monitor, as you aren't moving your head and expect the screen to keep on.
Another thing to be told is that usually a much bigger improvement over more hz is strobing (nvidia call their implementation lightboost) since it reduced image redention/ghosting by a lot.
--
As for the music quality, flac and similar are placebo*. That's pretty much it.
A nice article on music quality is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20140524...eil-young.html (it's more about a bigger sampling frequency than bitrate, but still worth a read).
Also http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Transparency
Why the *? Because usually people download .flac files from a source that used a better master/mixing that the one found in "recent" cds. Also, tons of .mp3 and similar one could download from the internet are very badly encoded and taken from "dubious" sources.
There's also the problem with encoders, many sucks.
If you want to see it by yourself, get a .flac of your favorite song, convert it to .mp3 v0 with lame, and then use a double-blind testing program to see if you can manage to find the .flac file without cheating.
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My two cents, enjoy.
Oh, by the way, I like that finally Tizen is getting shipped. Maybe between the recent improvements on iOS 8, Samsung shipping Tizen, Windows Phone getting better and Jolla/Firefox OS Google will finally move forward with Android. I feel that we've been getting only small/minor updates lately (and for lately I mean the latest 2/3 major releases).
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