mortslim;517708 Wrote: > I read the website for referencerecordings. From what I see, this > company sells CD's. By definition, CD's are 16bit/44.1kHz. No matter > how much hocus pocus fancy terminology is used to describe the audio > characteristics of the recordings, it is still 16/44.1. It can't be > anything else or it wouldn't play in a CD player. > > As far as the recording process is concerned, yes, the recordings can > start out at a higher bit and sample rate but then they need to be > dithered and downsampled to comply with CD requirements. When a 24-bit > signal ends up on a 16-bit CD, eight bits are truncated and never heard > from again. There is also a loss of audio quality when doing a sample > rate conversion (downsampling). > > In my own studio, I use a MOTU 828mk3 and SONAR 8.5 Producer, both of > which are capable of 24/192. But again, that is only during the > recording process for my own productions, in order to use software > plugins that benefit from the higher sample rate. The final mix needs > to be 16/44.1 on a CD. > > Yes, you can go all the way to 24/192 on a DVD, but there are not too > many record companies that produce music on DVD. Even at 24/96 you are > usually limited to music videos and concert movies. The vast majority > of music is manufactured to the CD standard. > > Bottom line, 24/192 is an academic issue with no practical consequence > in the context of listening to music on a squeezebox.
Amen... -- Kevin Haskins ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kevin Haskins's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30729 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74688 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
