oshcar wrote: > I am just trying to improve sound quality. something about picore sound > has never sat right with me. i have played around with the bit length > padding alot in other software and have never liked padding 16bit source > material to 32 bit. when i suspected that picore was padding everything > to 32 bit it just made me feel this was possibly the reason i am > uncomfortable with the sound. 24bit i can live with in other software, > so i would just like to try this. i dont like SOX up-sampling so i like > to avoid it if possible. i know some people will say the bit padding is > inaudible but i have A/B`d it with identical players, so ..... > as far as ALSA goes, i just want the most generic setup possible - no > software conversion desired. currently i am using the generic 5102 with > the "output setting" cleared to blamk.
I think you need to be be more specific again about "improve sound quality". It feels like you are concerned that somehow padding is degrading the original audio samples - it is not, it is adding zeroes to the LSB which are needed if the destination or a calculation requires it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114947 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
