mswlogo;209808 Wrote: > Is the Tact hooked Digitally or Analog? > If analog there is no correlation between it's A/D input sampling rate > and TP D/A output rate. You're better off staying with the native > recording data rate. > > If hooked digitally I would hope/expect tact properly handles 16/44.1 > and I would let it do any internal conversion needed to convert to it's > internal data rates. Good processors maintain the source data rate (or > exact multiples) all the way through. Resampling 44.1 to 48 is like > trying to count in Hex with 10 fingers (it gets messy). > > You said Tact uses 96 sampling rate with refers to an A/D to rate. If > your not using analog it probably has no factor at all in this > discussion. > > Most of us use FLAC format. That is a native format supported by TP/SB. > It saves space, allows tagging and is exactly the same as raw wave as > far as audio goes. Also wave files have almost zero file structure > checking. With FLAC and many other lossless formats if the file has > been corrupted in anyway you'll know it and you can scan your whole > library for integrity. With Wave files you don't.
Let me rephase: TacT works like this: digital input can take a signal anywheres from 44.1 to 192. right after the digital reciever, the AD1896 ASRC coverts any sample rate input to 96. 96 is the rate used in the DSP then after DSP, it goes to another AD1896 ASRC, at the AD1986, you can control the output anywheres from 44.1 to 196, then to digital transmitter to output. From the output you can go to a DAC (internal or External of choice). In my system I go to a TAcT digital amp(s) and again, it goes threw the above, but the DSP 96khz goes threw a PCM to PWM output. As you see, the "Ideal" would be set the ASRC to bypass internally, and feed the system 96 throughout. The tricky part is to feed it a well coverted 96 khz signal. A few TacT users will take it to thier grave, the AD1896 chip is not good, and will use adobe audition to do the conversion. I found doing refinments to the internals feeding good power and clock to the AD1896 ASRC, does a very good job Attenuating jitter along with "on the fly" conversions. One of my Ref source I like much is my Modded Northstar. The reason I chose the Northstar was for its ability to upsample to 96khz via the AES. The Cirrus logic chip used for the rate conversion sounds incredible feeding the TAcT Rack 96khz throughout basically bypassing all of the AD1896 ASRC's while maintaining quality jitter attenuation. There seems to be some really good synergy between the Northstar and TacT. >From the above, now I think you can understand why I like to use wave 48khz using a transporter. The ASRC will have "simple math" conversions within the tact. I will try Flac at 24/96 as per your recomendations. thank you. Any rip programs you can recommend? -- aberdeencomponents ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aberdeencomponents's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35505 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
