ymilner;195143 Wrote: > Yes, that's what I did too with those few 24/94 rips I have. I just keep > the original files off-line, waiting for SD to fix the firmware (or for > transporter, if this day will ever come:) ). > BTW, what do you use for downsampling?
Hi Ymilner, have you tried different downsampling tools? From what I read going from 96K->48K is not rocket science and any reasonable downsampler will work well. I have used PPHS and SRC codecs in Foobar with success. For whatever reason, SRC seems to sound better to me...dont know why. Maybe due to its superior low-past filter to filter above the new Nyquist frequency(which gets reduced by 1/2 with the downsampling) Now going from 96 to 44.1 is not an even multiple, so rocket science is involved -- and I dont think any public domain(free) resamplers do a good job. r8brain is an example of one that costs over $70, but does a great job. You can seach on that if interested. There have been posts on this subject that have been very informative. The good news is that the SB does 24/48 native, so getting very high quality from 24/96 material is possible by downsampling and easy. I think pre-processing the file is better than letting the SB do it in firmware because the low-power SB implementation doesn't filter out the introduced artifacts by the bit reduction(no low-pass filtering). I think most of the perceived improvements seem to be obtained from 16/44.1 to 24/48 anyways(HUGE improvement)....to 24/96 possibly is a bit overkill...open to debate I guess -- I have not done extensive listening tests, but some here. -- jt25741 SB3->AR Masters Coax -> PS Audio DLIII -> Cardas Golden Reference XLR -> Sim Audio P5 -> Cardas Golden Reference XLR -> Sim Audio W5 -> PS Audio Xtreme Plus(Low) AQCV4(mid/hi)-> Magnepan 3.6R ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jt25741's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8645 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34451 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
