Audiophiles Rejoice: The Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem actually proves high-res audio is real and works

Background

I was reading on some forums online about how this theorem proves that CD quality sound fully reproduces the original analog audio signal “perfectly” and high-res is “fake news”.

There is so much outright lies, people who have never gone to college, and journalists trying to explain stuff they do not understand online. They don’t fully understand what they are talking about, and they omit important parts of the reality, in trying to “skew” science into telling what they want to tell.

The engineers at Sony and Philips must be holding their heads in their hands and laughing at these people, who have no qualifications whatsoever, but keep spreading untruths.

Maybe there are inaccuracies here, but I can assure you that, the below is more accurate than any of the things I have read online so far — by a lot!

Dear random, anonymous internet people…

After a lot of people had read this article, I also posted it on reddit (the trash bin of the Internet), just to get more critiques so I can bolster this article, adding rebuttals to what they have written.

Sure, someone, somewhere knows more than me on this subject. But such people won’t write an article to clear up the lies out there. They are happy trashing people who take the time to clear up some of the lies out there.

I am pretty sure the anonymous reddit guy with an “MS” in audio engineering is a liar. It is inconceivable for me that someone with an actual four year college degree will indulge in the kind of coarse dialogue which passes for debate in some of these forums. I think it is highly likely that these are high school pass outs or failures, sitting in a basement somewhere — and too proud to admit that they really do not understand half of the terminology they are using in their arguments.