SiCHIPS;342019 Wrote: > > I am using my MacBook-Pro with iTunes to rip to 48KHz 16bit (Why 48KHz, > after numerous A/B, it sounds best into the 360S! Maybe its the SHARC > filtering or whatever!).
Before you rip those 1300 CDs to 48kHz, I'd pause to think a little. When you do that you are permanently altering the data. You can never convert those rips back to the original - you'd have to rerip. Now it's possible you might never need or want to do that, in which case fine. But it's also possible you might later decide you prefer 44.1, or you might want to make some compressed lossy versions of the files for an MP3 player (better done from the originals), or whatever. You should also bear in mind that you're in a tiny minority (probably consisting entirely of you) that prefers a 48kHz version to the original 44.1. So why not have it both ways - rip everything losslessly to 44.1, and then find a program that can transcode to 48kHz? That way you can keep two copies of your CD library - a 44.1 as an archive, and a 48kHz "processed" version. This requires hardly any more work than the ripping, assuming you can find a program to do it (for most kinds of transcoding or format conversion, you just point the program at the right directory and let it work overnight). p.s. - two questions: 1) have you done a blind test on your preference for 48? Before making a decision that might take such a large amount of time to undo, it might be worth spending 20 minutes making sure you really prefer it when you don't know which you're listening to, and 2) what is a 10T? Aerial Acoustics? -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52812 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
