ralphpnj;484841 Wrote: > 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.
Fare play, but still doesn't answer my conscerns though, about the versions of SC or slim server. Hopefully someone will test and post results -- Louishlomador ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Louishlomador's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34260 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71321 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
