Eric Carroll;185451 Wrote: > Hm, did I claim this was an experiment? If I did I understand your > point. But I think this is reverse engineering. To your point, the > "control" is yet to arrive - I have on order the V2 of the sampler > disk. This disk has the same track done twice, once with and once > without the HDCD encoding. I will run them through the 24b capture > process and examine the waveforms. The expected results will be to see > the waveform difference. That will be 100% conclusive. > > In the meantime I think Olav has nailed it... Eric - I think you MAY be right - I spent yesterday comparing HDCD rips via WAVOUT against the 16-bit versions. My initial observatons were wrong...the files are very different in some cases. Tonight I intend to do some serious listening, but at the moment it does indeed look like the MS code does something beyond lighting the HDCD indicator...
I really wish we could get some comment from MS on this. Cheers Phil -- Phil Leigh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32967 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
