R Johnson;534476 Wrote: > I'd love to "look at" the files. As previously mentioned, the owner of itrax.com did do a spectragraphic analyses to "look". That is an analysis of what your ears hear in terms of the frequencies. And what he found was not what HD audio is expected to sound like.
>From a bit depth and sample rate perspective, the downloadable file will be exactly what it claims: 24/88.2. But the question raised by the previous poster illustrates precisely why there is a need (which is currently lacking) for full disclosure. Most people who are not in the recording field aren't familiar with bit depth dithering and sample rate conversion. The bottom line is that once the bit depth and sample rate are changed, it is impossible to determine the previous bit depth and sample rate before the change (other than by the spectragraphic analyses mentioned above. For example, I use Cakewalk Sonar Producer Edition 8.5, one of the leading software programs for audio recording. I can rip a CD, whose source is of course 16 bit/44.1 kHz. And then click a few times with my mouse in this program, and voila, the resulting file can be changed to 24 bit/192 kHz. That is what it's properties will be in the program. But as previously mentioned, even at 24/192, the quality of the fidelity will be no different than 16/44.1 because it's just a copy of the original. My program can't read this new file and determine its prior bit depth and sample rate. That is not possible with any audio recording software. So the point is that when you buy a download, you are basically working on faith and trust that the vendor is selling you what you think you are buying. The more disclosure you get before the purchase, the more likely you will be getting what you think you are getting. -- mortslim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mortslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11039 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74688 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
