kbang;569869 Wrote:
Thanks Gary - that is interesting. I am thinking a bit about the
Benchmark as I can find it used for half the price of a new Transporter
(the Transporter is hard to find used in Denmark).
I use the COAX and Toslink digital inputs on my TP for DVD and PVR
playback. They
earwaxer9;569921 Wrote:
I have some high res. flac downloads that sound great. I havent really
compared CD res. sound to flac. What I have done is rip some CD's to
24/96 with dbpoweramp. I transfer them over ethernet. I will say that
they clearly sound better than the rips at native res. I
Teus de Jong;568761 Wrote:
Also thanks Andy. I almost certainly won't hear the difference (aging
has a larger effect on perceived roll off I'm afraid). But it shows
very clearly that transporter buyers are not left in the dark! And mine
still sounds fabulous.
Can I just add a +1 to the
JJZolx;569124 Wrote:
A lot of people aren't able to run 7.6.0 due to various scanning bugs.
If the new firmware is installed with 7.6.0 and slow roll-off filtering
is set, what will be the net result if the player is connected to a
7.5.x server? Will the DAC be reset (to the default sharp
cliveb;569976 Wrote:
What you would really miss with a Benchmark is the TP's remote volume
control (unless you buy the new DAC1-HDR, which does has remote volume
control - but at a price).
I will be using the volume control on my amp :-)
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kbang
firedog;569980 Wrote:
dbpoweramp can rip wav files to flac at any bitrate and resolution you
want. It's one of the DSP options (not in the free version, you need at
least the PowerPack version).
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/db-versions.htm
Lots of listeners think 96k files sound better, even
garym;570047 Wrote:
I can't speak to either my benchmark DAC or transporter for 5.1 material
as I've not used either for anything other than two channel stereo.
It will be 2 channels only - I can't afford more speakers ;-)
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kbang
earwaxer9;570049 Wrote:
Interesting - I will have to play around with dbpoweramp some more! I
have the full version. What DSP option would I use?
thanks
There are two things you'd need to set up - resample to, and bit
depth.
Why you'd want to is beyond me - all you're going to do is add
