tricka;380174 Wrote: > Bit rate (20 0r 24) has a far greater effect on perceived musical > reproduction than sample rate, all things being equal. I cannot really > hear any difference between 24/88 and 24/44 where I have down sampled > the same music file. > > I was chatting about this with the Linn Records sound engineer (David - > very nice man too!) and he confirmed this to be the case - lots of > combo's but what really matters is bit depth. >
Actually if you read earlier in this thread and look at Linn website there are some 24bit/192kHz recordings. I don't say that I can hear any difference because I haven't tried listening to these higher bitrate files, but I have a RME hdsp/multiface combo capable of 96kHz so I guess I have to do some experimentation and see if I can hear a difference between 96 and 48 I found some samplefiles here: http://www.2l.no/hires/index.html haven't heard them yet though tricka;380174 Wrote: > > Incidentally I would argue that; > 1. your speakers are the most important item relating to perceived > quality > 2. Now getting onto music - the vast majority of music out there is > 16/44. There is precious little 24/96 available (Linn, HDD from Giant > etc) and the future? Who knows? The current state of the computer > audiophile art is the 24/176.4 HRX albums (Reference Recordings) which > numbered a whole 4 at last count. Bad luck if you don't like those 4 > records or performances. And please bear in mind a higher sample rate > does not always equate to better sound or sound that you'll like more. > Far more important is the performance and the skill of the orchestra, > conductor and sound recording technician, not to mention the acoustics > of the recording venue. > 3.how the analogue output stage is handled on the DAC is what really > matters. > The chip set less so. Yes I have good speakers I fully disagree. High resolution music(that would be high bit AND samplerate) would only make sense if producers doesn't overcompress(dynamically - then the higher bitdepth doesnt make sense) music. But I don't follow your logic. Because there are as you say only 4 albums now doesn't mean that there are only 4 tomorrow, and there won't be more of them I not very many people can play them For your point 3 I can't agree. Because there has been huge improvements to D/A in the time we have had cd players. I know the print layout etc around the D/A is very important though - but I am confident that slimdevices has made that as good as it can get from what I have read from other forum posts. Seems there have been some experimentations when designing the transporter to get to the best solution What I am a little afraid of is if someone starts selling 192kHz "studio masters" and I then have to samplerate convert it down to something playable(if I have just bought a transporter..I haven't yet, but borrowing one soon) It is not so much that I need 192kHz. It is more that I would like to avoid downsampling -- Alfafa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alfafa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17798 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57631 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
