you're telling me that my workflow is wrong. remember that part. how much do you think I am worried about your music?

When you can't back up what your'e saying, you have to go to "most of my listeners use headphones on their iphone."

If you are the kind of person who will not bother to load a certain compressor, limiter, etc. onto a channel because you know you want transparency instead of it's character, as an example. Why would you load a 16bit sample for some sound you want clarity from? It's not going to get better, it's going to get worse.

 

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What is the point of this discussion? Most listeners listen to streaming services in MP3 or some FLAC

 

My doctor asked me for blood, urine, stool and semen samples. I just gave him my underpants.

 

They have a certain character for sure that I like, that's pretty good sample cd, Kraftwerk style. I think you can even find it on archive.org nowadays

 

I get the convenience point of converting samples and I personally think it is not really relevant what kind of bit depth etc somebody use. Important is why someone use a sample and how it sounds. Context matters, not those technical aspects.

On the other hand I somehow disagree on "the public no longer has the ears" statement. First of all the public (non music making people) always gave a shit about the way music was made/recorded. As if the woodstock crowd in 1969 cared about what string tension Hendrix used - that's only for those who analyse deeply or make music on their own.

Another thing is: the presumption how "people" listening too music is a rather lame approach to make music. If you think todays music sounds ass in general because of that, you're argument can be named an important part of the problem. I'm glad I'm not feeling there is a problem anyway, with todays million ways music can sound like.

 

Doctor Hifiberg: - “What!! 64 kbps MP3?! Completely unacceptable! This diagnosis is incompatible with life!"

 

- RUSH Moving Pictures was recorded 44.1k 16 bit.

- another thot to the op, I am using my onboard sampler provided by my daw. It imports a lot. I'd stupidly overlooked it for years.

 

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Excellent topical Alan Wilder interview three months ago:
https://depechemodetribute.co.uk/alan-wilder-interview/#Modern-Music-Tools