Phil Leigh;484908 Wrote: > This is the key post so far. > > Louis, > > If you are ripping normal redbook CD's you must do it at 16/44.1. > That's "lossless". Anything else introduces information that is NOT part > of the original recording. Whether ripping at 24/48 makes things sound > better or worse is debateable and only applies to your ears and your > system. > > However, the inescapable fact is you are not starting from a clean > source. > > By the way, I assume you are not using Replaygain? > > Saving redbook as 24/48 on hard disk just wastes space, network and > CPU. > > If you wanted to you could use SOX (if your server is a PC) to upsample > on the fly from 16/44.1 to 24/48 - that would only waste CPU and > network. > > Also, using WAV as the storage format makes little sense for many > reasons. What you store as and what you stream as are, or can be, two > different things as you have found. > > > That site you linked to by the way has nothing at all to do with > ripping CD's...nothing. > > Phil
Phil, This has already been pointed out. I think the focus now should be on the original question. Your findings between Flac and Wave in terms of sound quality on SB3 using different versions. I've already explained the test process. Maybe you can post your findings. -- Louishlomador ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Louishlomador's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34260 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71321 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
