I'll tell ya about some real magic sauce, got a buddy sent me a batch of his homemade naga viper sauce. It will make you see things.

The word "freedom" seems to be associated with drugs. It might be normal for "artists".

into politics

It is about what freedom really is.
Slaves are not supposed to trust their senses. They have to eat their meal and enjoy it.

that whole line of argument is one big logical fallacy,

He's relentless with that stuff, he ought to go into politics, lol.

The real question is whether resampling will make any detectable difference.

The real question is whether your trust your ears.

If you do not trust your ears, you can easily fool yourself with "objective tests", and enjoy any "digital crap".

If you do not trust your ears, how can you trust your eyes, your brain, your thoughts, and your opinions, and your "objective tests"?

I think I still have an old Simpson voltmeter in one of my boxes of old stuff, circa early 80's

Ahh, even better... Vintage test equipment.
Beware, that disease is catching and never entirely curable. Voltmeters are particularly pernicious, being simultaneously easy to obtain and easy to justify. Scopes and signal generators are safer - since they take up more space, it's slightly easier to notice when you have enough only need one more.

Simpson did make nice gear, and I have just realised I don't have any. I'll be right ba...

Ahem, my current "old faithful" bench meter is one of these... And yes, I have used the 5Kv range, and I am still alive.

Project #379 (currently occupying said bench) is to fix the '90s Hameg (yeah, I know, kinda "meh") 40MHz storage scope I got for a song. Digital overlay and analog side don't agree on what range channel B is on, and that's some in-house shift-register data-bus malarkey that looks deliciously entertaining to figure out. Also I'm pretty sure it's the last "hybrid" storage scope with a real tube...
But I digress. I wouldn't want to annoy the locals (more), with off-topic not-conspiracy non-whinging now would I.

Oh, too late. Here they come for amateur philosophy hour.

If you want to be really sure set up 3 choices, two raw and the other resampled (or the other way round). If you can't tell which choice is the odd one out then it *really* makes no difference.

This assumes the analog amplifier, speakers, etc are all good quality. They are often the limiting factor.

That said you should avoid repeatedly resampling or otherwise processing sound data. Done too often it would degrade the sound.

Shame, audio engineering is a bit of a hobby of mine. Mostly old-school analog stuff mind, but here I was hoping for a real debate and maybe an excuse to unpack some of my pets test equipment. Nevermind.

That would be a great conversation that i'd happily participate in.

I think I still have an old Simpson voltmeter in one of my boxes of old stuff, circa early 80's.

He doesn't even have a basic understanding of human hearing Steve

Righty ho then, seems I'm rolling rocks up Mt. Kruger again. Guess I'll stop now before this gets out of hand.

Shame, audio engineering is a bit of a hobby of mine. Mostly old-school analog stuff mind, but here I was hoping for a real debate and maybe an excuse to unpack some of my pets test equipment. Nevermind.

I see... When rational arguments don't go your way, appeal to, what, garden-shed psychology? philosophy? No thanks.