Am I allowed to play the record through a surround matrix decoder? Because I'd claim your $10 million in a flash. This is true of basically any lossy audio enco

Am I allowed to play the record through a surround matrix decoder? Because I'd claim your $10 million in a flash. This is true of basically any lossy audio encoding because phase information, which is used to reconstruct a surround field, is usually lost. Your statement would be correct for a lossless digital recording (which "audiophiles" often claim is still inferior to vinyl) but I think it's overstating the case for such a crime against fidelity as mp3. >Nyquist bandwidth is an incontrovertible fact of physics: depending on the audio stream rate of frequency changes, humans simply can't distinguish rapid changes following each other Can't make sense of this but it sounds super muddled. What humans can distinguish has nothing to do with Nyquist. Not sure what a "audio stream rate of frequency changes" is either. 320 kbps (not "kHz") mp3 is a waste of time if you ask me - no added value over lower-bitrate mp3. If you're willing to throw that kind of bandwidth at your audio, just spend a little extra and use FLAC.