I've done listening and comparing 44.1 to 88.2 and 96 files and the truth is there is no clear advantage that I can hear. Sometimes 96 sounds better and sometimes it sounds worse.
There is no obvious "96 always sounds better". I think it has far more to do with the method used for down/upsampling than any inherent superiority one way or the other. I have a bunch of 88.2 files that I recorded myself and these always sound better than down sampled ones, but I also have some tracks that I have that I got commercially of the same recording where the 44.1 actually sound better. In any case the differences are quite subtle, its not a night and day difference. If you have hi-rez files go ahead and listen to them at whatever rate they come in, and enjoy the 44.1 files you have as well. I would not obsess over it. I'm enjoying listening to all my 44.1 files over the Touch so much that I have no desire to go off and spend money on hi-rez stuff. When I do my own recording I'll do them in hi-rez because I can, but for spending a lot extra on commercial hi-rez recordings its not worth it to me at this point. John S. -- JohnSwenson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77126 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
