oreillymj;187420 Wrote: > See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDCD > > Looks like the format was bought by MS and abandoned. > Wiki says that media player has support for these disc, so I dug out my > Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin which has a HDCD logo on it. > > Media player played the disk but gave no indication that there was > anything unusual going on. > > Now in theory if you rip to WAV or FLAC and send it through your SB > without applying gain or digital volume control to a compatible DAC, > you should achieve the same result as playing the CD on a PC through > media player.
There's a whole thread on this subject elsewhere. You need MP9 or 10. You also need to capture the MP output as a 20-bit WAVEX file and then convert to 24-bit Flac or WAV. MS may have abandoned the format, but labels are still putting out HDCD disks (occasionally). -- Phil Leigh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33549 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
