Can I use qobuz android bubbleupnp with USB c to audio jack adapter on pixel 6 phone to get hi res music
I will be using apple usb c to audio adapter which is 24 bit 48 khz that is good enough for listening to music? Also is there a significant difference between 48 and 96 or 192 khz music
This is the explanation from an actual DSP engineer working on some very advanced CODECs.
people.xiph.org
According to it:
As I read it, more bits of resolution could possibly help (though dithering properly pretty much eliminates any practical noise advantage), but at least it can't hurt. Higher sample rates above 48 Khz on the other hand, can't help fidelity, but may hurt it.
Higher sample rates like 96-192 Khz can represent and deliver significant ultrasonic energy. Unless you're playing music for your dogs or cats, all this extra energy does is stress your amplifier and potentially create intermodulation distortion products that may well fall within the human hearing range and degrade the overall delivery of sound. At best it just wastes amplifier power and reduces headroom to make sound you simply can't hear. (I reduced my maximum to 24/48Khz and the cat can file a complaint in the suggestion box if it bothers him.)
If this reference has it right, sounds like higher sample rates are a marketing gimmick to sell streaming services and gear and has no scientific support.
May be interesting to do a big double-blind test between 24 bit at 44.1 Khz and 24 bits at 192 Khz (or higher)... and settle the matter objectively.
(In 2007-ish, Boston Audio Society put an A/B/X switchable 16 bit / 44.1 Khz (CD spec) "bottleneck" in a SACD/higher rate digital stream and over a year of testing, nobody could reliably tell whether they were listening to the 16 bit 44.1 Khz downconverted version or the full rate stream over a year of testing with many subjects, including trained musicians and audio professionals. The selection was close to 50%. This strongly indicated nothing was being heard.
However, they did note 24 bits was better at conveying absolute silence.
That's my amateur attempt at a summary of a couple longish articles for what it's worth.