I can't help wondering as I read all these posts: exactly why do you have 24bit/96khz recordings taking up all that space on your hard drive? While I can (somewhat) understand having 24bit recordings (especially if you are doing some type of DSP processing before listening), I have no idea why you'd store your music in 96khz.
ABX listening testing has determined time and time again that --no one- can tell the difference between a 96khz recording and a 48khz recording. In fact its -extremely- rare that anyone can tell the difference between a 16bit/44khz recording and a higher order recording. The only reasons (I can think of) to have a higher order recording would be to either do editing or processing of the music (in which case you'd be better of using floating point 32bit anyway) or as an archival format (with the hope that some future sound reproduction technology will allow you to by-pass your ears... perhaps plug straight into your brain?). Might be worth reading this if you think that you can hear a difference between (properly encoded) 16/44 and 24/96 or 24/48 recordings: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=1&t=9311 Just my $0.02. Hope this isn't too off topic, ss. -- street_samurai _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
