MahlerFreak;182828 Wrote: > I have been using a player modified by these folks: > > http://dvdupgrades.ch/digital_audio.html > > for a couple of years now to convert SACD to 24bit 88.2 Khz PCM for > input into my Meridian system (which doesn't have DSD digital input). > It outputs 24/96 from DVD-Audio, too. > > I haven't tried to use it to rip audio, though, and I doubt I will - it > would be awfully cumbersome and slow, in the best case.
I've seen this system, it's interesting. It is certainly an option for ripping as well, but the downside of a hell of a lot of diskspace etc are still there of course. I had another problem when I experimented with higher sampling frequencies as well (which was another reason I shelved it); I'm using a SoftSqueeze to play the music from Slimserver through my soundcard (Lynx Two) connected further to upsampler + DAC. It turned out (about 1 year ago, don't know if it has been fixed) that SoftSqueeze did not check the sample frequency in the sound file (or if it was Slimserver, don't know). What happened was that when I played a 48 kS/s file through Slimserver + SoftSqueeze, the sound was sent out as 44.1 kS/s. I could then only get it right if I manually adjusted the "master" clock, i.e. my soundcard clock to 48 kHz. This option is no option, I can't keep track of which soundfile is which sample frequency and I can't handle this with a little IPAQ as remote. I needed Slimserver + Softsqueeze to correctly identify the sample frequency in the file and send it at the correct rate. Apparently not working at least a year ago. I tried using other players (on pure WAV files) and that worked fine, sample rate switched where it should. So it seemed to be a Slimserver/Softqueeze thing. Anyway - ripping SACD, even if ripping it to 44.1 kS/s can actually sometimes also be interesting. One example is the old Mercury Living Presence recordings. They were remastered in the early 1990's to CD by Wilma Cozart herself with very good result. Lately, they have come out on SACD as well, now remastered again from the original source (35 mm film). But the CD layer on the SACD's is the older Wilma Cozart remastering. By ripping such a SACD and downsampling to CD (44.1), it is possible that the sound quality is better than if you rip the CD layer. After all there is 10-15 years between the Cozart remaster and the newer SACD remaster so technology could have improved. I have thought about trying this just for fun, but it is a lot of work so I'll probably shelf that project... 'Using FLAC lossless encoding for streaming hifi' (http://www.lossless-music.net) -- CarlOtto ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CarlOtto's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3581 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32976 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
