Morning peeps! Having been (fairly) reprimanded for being frivolous on this august forum I thought I'd make a concerted effort to be serious.
It has been mentioned to me more than once on this forum that I would obtain as much audible satisfaction from the (relatively small proportion, in the context of my 6,500+ album library of lossless files) 24/96 recordings that I have if I converted them to 16/44.1, the proposal being that any superior re-mastering efforts that they might incorporate would be equally apparent in a CD-size PCM box. My excuse for not doing this so far, other than sheer laziness since they can be played "as is" (although I do have to adjust the sampling frequency on my Brokkly DAC), is that I have loads of free space on my NAS & a lot of other library work to do on my file tags. However the question arises as to whether a 24/96 format recording might actually sound -*worse*- than 16/44.1 on account of the anti-aliasing filtering not being applied until a much higher frequency, which potentially would permit the onward transmission of signals above the upper limit of human hearing into my amplifier & loudspeakers. I'm fairly relaxed that my amplifier (quoted as -0.5dB at 200,000Hz, if you can believe any manufacturers' specs these days) won't be fazed by input up to 48kHz, but my speakers have aluminium dome tweeters (again quoted as -6dB at 40,000Hz) & I wondered if anyone could enlighten me regarding the approximate frequency of input signal likely to induce cone break-up (which would have audible effects at lower frequencies) in this type of transducer? Looking forward to learning something new today! Dave :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Golden Earring's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106519 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
