Julf wrote: > I agree. Probably best to have everything in FLAC, and pre-downsample > anything above 96k to avoid resampling on the fly.
Thanks Julf. Agree that after some listening the trade off between AIFF over Flac isn't worth it sound quality wise, so will be making a copy of my music and converting it to FLAC for playback on my Transporter. Playing same files from Jriver the AIFF sounded better than the Flac version, not a lot but more noticeable than playing through the Transporter. Interesting! But overall the Transporter sounded better than Jriver. Was curious about resampling on the fly vs pre-downsampling to 24/96... Took a SACD rip ISO in Jriver which strips out all the individual tracks, picked one and converted it to 2 Flac files for comparison. 1: No downsampling - 24/352 file. 2: Downsampling to 24/96 Interestingly, the 24/352 sounded better. Fuller sounding, instruments better separated, more open soundstage. 24/96 converted Flac was flatter in comparison, still good but just not quite as good. Cool, good to know. Only thing is file size? 24/96 is 92.8MB 24/352 is 200MB! No problems with hard drive space, but taking the view that as I have a LOT of DSD/SACD stuff it makes sense to only keep my favourite albums I listen to, audiophile recordings, classical at 24/352, the rest can be 24/96. Seems a good way to do it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gazjam's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18604 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103125 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
