firedog;458950 Wrote: > The other SB units (excepting Transporter) play 24/96, but down sampled > to 24/48 by SqueezeCenter before conversion to analogue.
The new spec of 24/96 on the new Touch is not something to have Gear Lust about. For all practical purposes most consumers won't miss it. By definition, CD's are recorded at 16 bit/44.1 sample rate. So if you ripped your own CD's, 16/44.1 is the best quality you can ever get. Yes you can "upsample" to the higher spec with the appropriate software (e.g. Cakewalk's Sonar) however the resulting quality will be the same as the original source material. You'll get a good copy, but that's all it is, a good copy of the original. Unless you are a teenager with perfect hearing, you won't be able to tell the difference between 24/48 and 24/96 anyway. You are limited by the ability of the human ear to hear. After reaching the age of 20 years, your hearing (sorry to say) gradually decreases every year in terms of the frequencies it can hear. DVD's (not CD's) can be recorded at 24/48 or 24/96. So if you ripped music from a DVD, you will need software (e.g. Sonar) to check what the sample rate was on the DVD. If you ripped from a vinyl record, yes you can rip to 24/96 if you have the appropriate software. The reason is that you are not really "ripping", you are doing straight recording in real time. Future music: even after DVD's have given us the promise of higher quality sound for many years now, music is still published for the most part at CD quality. Why? Probably a realization by the music industry that it would increase costs to record to DVD and the industry understands that most people have CD players in their car, not DVD players, so there would be an extemely limited market for DVD quality music. It was a revolutionary jump from vinyl to CD in the marketplace. Going from CD to DVD is evolutionary not revolutionary and going from DVD to Blueray DVD is even less evolutionary for most of the market. The industry looks at CD quality as "good enough" for the vast majority of the market. The industry's market anaylsis is that it isn't worth the effort to publish music to DVD quality. There is some DVD music available but it is in the very small minority. The future of music is not DVD or Blueray DVD. It is online. And online music is in a compressed formet, e.g. mp3. So if anything, the future of music, at least for the short-term future of the next few years, is lower quality, not higher quality. E.g. Rhapsody, which streams at a higher sample rate than most other services, still is not even streaming at true CD quality. So enjoy your Squeezebox Classic or Boom or Duet and don't worry about the new "theoretical" specs. -- mortslim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mortslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11039 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67679 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
