slartibartfast wrote: > Only yesterday I discovered that 4 of my albums were HDCD encoded. One > of them "Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin" didn't contain any HFCD > features but the other 3 did so I converted them. To be honest any > difference is probably too subtle for me to detect but the file size of > the 24 bit files was only very slightly larger than the 16 bit > originals. > > Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk
Good point. I misspoke on the size. I recalled wrong (I think I was remembering sizes of 24/96 to 16/44.1 files). I just converted some files to HDCD with the dbpa DSP and they are only slightly larger than the 16 bit. *Home:* VBA 4TB (2.4)>LMS 7.9.1>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* VBA 3TB (2.4)>LMS 7.9.1>Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (ethernet, Radio WIFI) *Office:* Win10(64)>LMS 7.9.2>Squeezelite *The Wild (no internet): *PiCorePlayer 4.0 on rPi 3B+, hifiberry Dac+Pro, 4TB USB (LMS & Squeezelite) *Controllers:* iPhone6 & iPadAir2 (iPeng), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win10(64) laptop *Files:* ripping: dbpa > FLAC; post-rip: mp3tag, PerfectTunes; Streaming: Spotify ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110372 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
