DejanM wrote: > Hi, > > I think it is a time to put a new SB unit on the market. SB Touch is ok > but we (customers, market in general) need something that can play > 24/192 or even 32/384. Is there something cooking in the kitchen ?
No we don't 24/96 is already overkill for human listeners ? We need better recordings , the delivery format has very litle influence compared to the sound of the master/recording . ( actually the sq of the majority of existing recordings is such that not even 16/44.1 is a technical limit ) If some vendor insit on selling 24/192 LMS can down sample on the fly to 24/96 or if your servers is a low powered NAS you can do that offline , or buy the 24/96 content . If yourdac is working properly a human being simply can not hear the diff between 24/192 and 24/96 . I suggest an experiment downsample one of your own 24/192 or 24/96 tracks to 16/44.1 and set up some kind of blind test . I've done that it's very revealing . It sometimes happens that some hirez version of a recording actually sounds better than the CD version ,but this has nothing to do with 16/44.1 vs 24/96 but they simply sourced a better version/master . So you can have the benefit of a better master in any delivery format >= 16/44.1 they will sound the same . You migth have to dowsample yourself to see this, as coincidentally the different cd and hirez and DVDA or SACD version are never from,the same master ( with some minor exceptions ) and all of the sound different . you can bet on that on a hybrid disc the cd layer and DSD/DVDA layer will never sound the same ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95885 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
