Actually it takes no more room because it is compressed back out in the lossless compression.
My system upsamples already. By using 24 bit when it interpolates the sample it will have more accurate samples to choose from. Let's take a simple case. Let's say I have 4bits 16 levels. And I use all 16 levels in a straight line. In this example each subsequent sample is one value higher than previous. 0,1,2,3,...15. Now resample at double the rate (32 samples). I get 0,0,1,1,2,2,3,3,...,15,15. Big deal resampling it did nothing for you because there is nothing in between to choose from. Now increase the word size to be 5 bits and normalize the orginal data. You get 0,2,4,6,...28,30 (still original sampling rate, 16 samples with a bigger word renormalized, we stretched the orginal 16 samples over 5 bits). Now let's resample again. You get 0,1,2,3,...30,31. Much more accurate. My system also does lots of digital processing, doing it 24 bit is better than doing it 16bit. Digital Room Correction etc. Calibration of speaker levels is also done in the digital domain. With more bits this will have less impact. There is no question a real recorded wider word sounds better. So why not give the system headroom to work with 16bit more accuarately data (less rounding, ;less risk of minor clipping etc.). Effectively I may get only 1 or 2 bits more than I have. Since it takes no more space, why not? -- mswlogo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mswlogo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9090 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34597 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
