bhaagensen;378888 Wrote: > Afaik this is a general hardware limitation which firmware will never > get around. > > But WHY do you really want anything above 96? It is never going to be > audible anyway. > > I'm sure we will be able to play those super formats by downsamling > just as the SB3 and Duet can play 96 and 88 today. > > Bjørn
Hi Bjørn How can you state as a hard fact that it would never be audible? The higher samplerate would reproduce the original with a higher resolution. I can't say that I can hear because I haven't heard 96kHz and 192kHz side by side In theory I would think that a digital signal with a much higher resolution would allowing not doing so much filtering afterwards? Have you heard 96/192 side by side? And then I just thinks it is a little weird that the D/A can do 192, but then not use it. ex. you could upsample all material to 192...like some of the Thule Audio stuff does. Yes you could downsample if 192kHz to lower rates, but that would be stupid imho - then I would much prefer the source material in lower bitrates and skip samplerate conversion which is a destructive operation (converting from 48 to 44.1 is known not to be optimal...actually read it was better upsampling to 88.2 and then to 44.1) I don't say I can hear the difference, but a lot of studio equipment today is running 192kHz. So if someone would make a "full quality studio master" available then 192kHz would be useful And if we look at the history of recording companies - they aren't even using the potential of CD ;-) Ruining it with to much dynamic compression etc. Hasse -- Alfafa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alfafa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17798 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57631
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