To listen to is to hear the 1720s as if a wormhole opened in your listening room. Vivaldi was not writing background music for dinner parties; he was writing visceral, cinematic tone poems. He wanted you to feel the ice on your skin and the blinding flash of the summer lightning.
The 24-bit depth provides up to 144dB of dynamic range compared to the 96dB of a standard 16-bit CD. In The Four Seasons , this allows for greater clarity in quiet passages, such as the "silvery pizzicato" of Winter , and more room for natural resonance and nuance. Vivaldi The Four Seasons -FLAC- 96-24
While standard CD quality is 16-bit/44.1kHz, high-resolution files provide significantly more data, which translates into: To listen to is to hear the 1720s