cmarin;473482 Wrote: > Actually the only question I posed was whether anyone knew if Logitech > had plans to upgrade the Transporter to handle 24/192 files. I figured > this was the appropriate forum to ask the question. Perhaps I made a > mistake. > > For what it's worth, I find the Transporter to be an excellent server > and use it to send its digital output to an outboard dac. My own model > is a modwright transporter with a wonderful tube/analog output section. > If it could handle 24/192 files, IMHO it would be an excellent > alternative to other high resolution music server solutions that are > being proposed. That is all. > > The argument, and one which I do not wish to engage in, is whether you > believe that the ability of a serve to output 24/192 digital files, or > anything higher than 24/96, is relevant or not to the music listening > experience. You seem to suggest that there are clearly better forums for > that. However, I did not raise that question. Someone else did.
My previous post was more a swipe at Computer Audiophile than at you. I apologize if I offended you since that was not my intent. Since you are very new to this forum and this particular section of the forum perhaps you should be informed that many of the loudest voices in this section are those of what I would call "show me" audiophiles, in that while they are not firmly in the double blind test camp, they are still in, for lack of better term, the scientific audiophile camp. In other words, while many of them will not dismiss some audiophilia's wilder claims out of hand, they will look for the scientific reason the claim should or should not be believed. So in the case of 24bit/192kHz high resolution files the scientific evidence points to the this level of resolution as being excessive. The argument is further complicated by the facts that 1) there is so little material of this high resolution available and 2) the ability to properly play back this hirez material is also very limited. I suppose one could go even further and point out that most digital recordings made in the past 25 to 30 years were not even recorded with such a high sampling rate. As for the analog recordings converted to digital I would also guess these were also not converted to such a high sampling rate. Sure the analog masters could be used to create new high resolution digital masters but as one can see by the new Beatles remasters no one feels that there is any need to make 24bit/96kHz resolution files available let alone 24bit/192kHz files. But one can always dream. -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69882 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
