Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Upsampling Impressions

2013-07-12 Thread edwardian
pippin wrote: yep. And one effect of server-side upsampling is a dramatic increase of bandwidth requirements. Going from 44.1/16 to 192/24 means you increase the bandwidth required by almost a factor of 7! OK fair enough. For uncompressed PCM: 16/44.1 = 1,411 Kbps 24/192 = 9,216 Kbps Your

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Upsampling Impressions

2013-07-12 Thread edwardian
JohnSwenson wrote: BTW the load on the Wandboard processor is about 8% when using this setting. When using the default 20 bit setting it is about 4% and when not doing any upsampling its about 2%. Cool. Thanks for the info. Do those percentages include FLAC decoding, or are you feeding

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Upsampling Impressions

2013-07-11 Thread edwardian
soundcheck wrote: I tried resampling with SOX and other (reference) tools as discussed at Audio Asylum and elsewhere several times in the past. http://soundcheck-audio.blogspot.de/2011/04/tt-resampling.html I never managed to get it working to my satisfaction. Neither realtime,

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Upsampling Impressions

2013-07-11 Thread edwardian
Julf wrote: Any specific reasons to prefer WAV? I think the general view is that with lower-end processors (such as those in the squeezeboxes) that don't have dedicated I/O processors the additional network load caused by the wasted bits in WAV files causes more CPU load (and thus

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Upsampling Impressions

2013-07-11 Thread edwardian
Julf wrote: Problem is that that might or might not work if you ever switch to some other software. Understood. Thanks for the information. I've been organizing my music collection over the past few months and my intention was to have a copy as WAV and a copy as FLAC to take advantage of