A number of my DVD-Audio discs rip to 24/192 e.g. R.E.M's Out of Time. On more than one occasion I've thought some favourite tracks didn't sound as good as I remember them sounding on CD so I've gone back and played the CD rip to find that some do sound better than the DVD-A to me. This got me looking into playback and I've noticed the 24/192s are transcoded to 705kbps FLAC, which is about half the rate of regular CD rips, and presumably explains my experience? Why would SBS have sox transcode 24/192 to lower quality than the average CD rip, and can one modify this behaviour?
-- audiomuze Oh, and yes, I almost forgot... there are those $250.00 acoustic pillows you can stick to your walls, or even better than that.... magic "tuning" dots that you can also stick - and that by the shear act of using them will free you of the bondage of this dilemma. In fact I heard that if you paint your CD's green, put an M&M on the top of each speaker and stick a Brazilian carrot in your ass while sipping ginseng tea your stereo will never sound better! '*last.fm*' (http://www.last.fm/user/audiomuze) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ audiomuze's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33613 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79627 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
