michael123;528097 Wrote: > 192/24 is not the top goal for me, merely a (frustrating) limitation. > Is it completely abandoned product in Logitech? > What about few bugs promised to fix? (like pseudo over-voltage, > updating flac library so the device will not stuck on certain bitrates, > ..) > It is not so old product.. less than 4 years.. > Product in high-end arena live sometimes for 15 years.. > > Is there any possibility a developer with (little, but available) spare > time can help maintaining Transporter?
I am with AndyG on this one. This is pretty much a waste of time. It is next to impossible to ABX 24/192 with 24/96. Sure if one starts doing stupid things like down-sampling the 24/192 to 24/96 then saving the down-sampled file for playback one might if one has super ears of a pre-ten year old notice some slight differences IE artifacts. But 24/96 native playback versus 24/192 native playback differences are all in ones imagination or ones brain is fooling ones ears in a vain attempt to justify the wasted money on buying such high formats and the equipment required to play them back. Besides most peoples home playback systems can't even start to take advantage of the minute slight difference between the two. Just look at all the effort you have already put into this for the 40 something titles. Keep collecting 24/96 and in ten years there might be a decent amount of available 24/192 material at cheaper prices plus a larger number of playback products to choose from. Until then, download the free Vortexbox software and buy a high end 24/192 audio card for your Vortexbox PC. Don't get me wrong, I think 24/192 is something to look forward to when technology can make the difference to 24/96 worth the trouble or when Obamacare starts paying for those free bionic ear replacements so seniors can drive safer due to perfect hearing which also happens to be better then current human hearing. Which I guess is really my main point, ones hearing range is just not able to hear the extra frequency range and further lowering of the noise floor that comes with 24/192 simply because 24/96 basically already exceeds most peoples listening range. As an example, do you really think with the best stereo setup you could afford that you could hear the difference between a 16 bit and 18 bit sample of the same recording. If you say you could, then you have proved my point. Once the bit rate gets to 24 and the sample rate reaches 96KHz, anything higher really only practically matters for making masters. With todays available playback equipment, ones own ears have become the limiting factor not the bit depth or the sampling frequency. -- iPhone *iPhone* Media Room: Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono's, VeraStarr 6.4SE 6-channel Amp, Vandersteen Speakers: Quatro Mains, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Video: Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1 Living Room: Duet, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1 Kitchen: Squeezebox BOOM Bedroom: Second Boom Bathroom: Squeezebox Radio Ford Thunderbird: Duet, Mac Mini Ford Expedition: SB Touch, USB drive ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76496 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
