@newt
There's educated audiophiles, and then there's placebo peddlers.
What you encountered is the latter.
The former will tell you that things like tubes are bs. Anything over CD quality is imperceptible. You don't need special cables to carry digital signals etc.
@newt
If you think you can hear above 22khz, good luck with that delusion.
@newt
>The idea behind using highres audio is that lowpass filters eat shit, and if you record live instruments at 44kHz
Either you misspoke, or you don't understand how recording digital audio works.
The 44.1kHz of the CD is NOT your audio frequency. It's the sample rate. With that sample rate you're reproducing sounds at as high as 22.05kHz. And there's really not much going up there with even classic music instruments. You're not recording live instruments at 44kHz, cause they just don't produce sound that high (and not even at 22.05kHz). It's why lossy encoders like mp3 cut off with lowpass filters even lower, at 16-18 kHz.
Sure, in theory you get those artifacts, but in practice you don't actually hear them, unless you did something REALLY WRONG during mastering.