Apologies, that flippant comment was super rude and juvenile and I am taking it as a signal that I really need a break, I don't normally speak in this way. Yikes.

Also totally fair, I shouldn't be hastily writing comments but I am interested in audio and wanted to share my experiences, naively.

I have some 'hires' recordings that I can't tell the difference between a CD at all and do not care for, and some where I hear more details (on very high end), more separation between instruments - and from what I'm reading it seems more like this is a mastering issue. The difference on some of these recordings enable a kind of subjective 'holographic' spatial effect in me (perhaps the cause of my emphatic response) and it seems I have probably falsely attributed this to the higher resolution as the factor.

i appreciate your apology and i didn't mean it as an attack on you personally, it was just meant to highlight the irony. perhaps i could have phrased it more sensitively