Louishlomador;484666 Wrote: > Yes, there is a bit of a grey area here as if you had a cd player that > was capable of playing at 24bit 96khz it will sound better than a CD > player equiped with a dac capable of only 48khz, hence I rip at this > resolution to extract every as much info as possible from the CD. The > site below seems to do some great comparisms > > http://www.tweakheadz.com/16_vs_24_bit_audio.htm
Hi Louis, I'm not really trying to muddy the waters any further then they already seem to be but.... The link you posted is all about RECORDING not RIPPING. There is a big, big difference between the two. When one is recording to digital or even converting an analog recording to digital (like an LP) things like bit depth and sample rate are very important and will have an effect on the audio quality of the recording. Ripping, on the other hand, is an entirely different process. When one rips a standard CD, the digital audio on the CD is ALWAYS has a bit depth of 16 and a sample rate of 44.1kHz, regardless of the marketing BS stating otherwise. So ripping to anything other than 16/44.1 is NOT going to result in a "better" sounding recording, period. Again, marketing may say other wise, as is the case with many high end CD players and DACS which claim that "upsampling" the either the bit depth or the sample rate or both improves the sound of a CD. Of course SACDs and DVD-Audio discs often have higher bit depth and sampling rates than standard CDs and so ripping them to bit depths and sample rates which match that of the recording can be of some benefit. As far as digital recording is concerned using 24 bit instead of 16 bit gives one greater flexibility with respect to editing since the noise floor of a 24 bit recording is much greater than that of a 16t bit recording. In any event the article given in your link does a fairly good job of explaining all this but does fail to mention the difference between recording and ripping. -- 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=71321 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
