Anne;190317 Wrote: > Well, I saw some people commenting on the smoother sound, but anyway, I > tried this via poweramp (it doesnt offer the 88,2 khz option by the > way), the files get HUGE, one song about 4600 kbps, the whole Songbird > album with eva Cassidy is about 1,13 GB large !
24/96 WAV = 4608 kbps. That's likely what it was you converted to. Not sure about ALAC, but these WAVs can be FLAC compressed no problem. It looks like you achieve the same compression ratio that you do on regular 16/44.1, so files would be in the 2000 - 2500 kbps range. Don't quote me on those numbers - I have a couple of test 24/96 FLACs and their original WAVs but my SlimServer processor died 2 nights ago, so I can't check. I'm not an expert on this, but 88.2 kHz seems a little newer as a sample rate (it seemed like 44.1, 48, 96 and 192 kHz were always the ones used), so this could be why some software doesn't support it yet. Again, I'm not an expert, but 88.2 would be convenient because it's exactly 2X 44.1, so resampling is simple - to get to 44.1, just drop every second sample. Going from 44.1 to 48, 96 or 192 would be a bit more involved and require a more sophisticated strategy. Sure, disc space is cheap, but with files this big it will really disappear fast. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33909 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
