Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Receiver with 96kHz output

2008-06-26 Thread Pale Blue Ego
pfarrell;315144 Wrote: > Pale Blue Ego wrote: > > This is all true, but we're talking about computer components here, > and > > therefore it makes sense that future generations of SB will get a > faster > > CPU and bigger buffer whether it wants them or not. > > Embedded stuff starts out a lot m

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Receiver with 96kHz output

2008-06-26 Thread Pat Farrell
Pale Blue Ego wrote: > This is all true, but we're talking about computer components here, and > therefore it makes sense that future generations of SB will get a faster > CPU and bigger buffer whether it wants them or not. Embedded stuff starts out a lot more competitive. An $8 CPU is expensive,

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Receiver with 96kHz output

2008-06-26 Thread Pale Blue Ego
pfarrell;314887 Wrote: > Pale Blue Ego wrote: > > Isn't the > > current SB3/SBR limitation only due to CPU or buffer memory limits? > > perhaps both, Sean said CPU cycles aren't there. faster/wider takes > more > memory and cpu even if the DAC can handle it. Given the tremendous > pressure on

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Receiver with 96kHz output

2008-06-25 Thread Phil Leigh
read this: http://www.wolfsonmicro.com/uploads/documents/ADC_Paper_v1.1.pdf Clive's point is correct about ADC's running (internally) at high sampling rates. Prior to the modern ADC chip, an analogue filter is always used to roll-off extreme high frequencies. This is benign because it is simple

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Receiver with 96kHz output

2008-06-25 Thread Pat Farrell
cliveb wrote: > Nobody uses analogue filters at 22.05kHz during A/D these days. Because all those brickwall filters were evil, EVIL. They completely screwed up the phase down into 10kHz. Maybe way lower. Too evil to think about using. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Receiver with 96kHz output

2008-06-25 Thread cliveb
Rodney_Gold;314908 Wrote: > Well , to my knowledge it has to be a brickwall filter at 22.5khz , I > cant see how it can be benign Nobody uses analogue filters at 22.05kHz during A/D these days. All ADCs sample at quite high rates precisely so the anti-aliasing filter can run at high frequencies,

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Receiver with 96kHz output

2008-06-25 Thread Rodney_Gold
Well , to my knowledge it has to be a brickwall filter at 22.5khz , I cant see how it can be benign , it surely has to affect frequencies in the audible spectrum to some extent as per ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/192a/Sampling.pdf Anti-Alias Filters: In order to prevent aliasing, we must remove

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Receiver with 96kHz output

2008-06-25 Thread Phil Leigh
Rodney_Gold;314884 Wrote: > Surely there is also a filter implemented in the AD processor , to cut > any frequencys above 1/2 the sampling rate? yes but as this is a (relatively benign) high-order analogue filter that is merely removing high frequencies prior to the ADC itself, it isn't going to

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Receiver with 96kHz output

2008-06-25 Thread Pat Farrell
Pale Blue Ego wrote: > Isn't the > current SB3/SBR limitation only due to CPU or buffer memory limits? perhaps both, Sean said CPU cycles aren't there. faster/wider takes more memory and cpu even if the DAC can handle it. Given the tremendous pressure on keeping prices down, its not at all clear

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Receiver with 96kHz output

2008-06-25 Thread Rodney_Gold
Surely there is also a filter implemented in the AD processor , to cut any frequencys above 1/2 the sampling rate? -- Rodney_Gold Sb3/Z-sys RDP1/meridian DSP5500's TP/X-cans v3/Senns 650's TP/TACT 2.0/SCM 50a's TP/Meridian DSP5000's "The nicest thing about smacking your head against the wall i

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Receiver with 96kHz output

2008-06-25 Thread Pale Blue Ego
adamslim;314776 Wrote: > I think it's highly unlikely that it will ever support 24/96. SD > designed the TP for audiophiles who wanted that kind of thing - I can't > even see why they would want to put into their cheapest product. Because most audio chips already handle 24/96, there's no reason

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Receiver with 96kHz output

2008-06-25 Thread Phil Leigh
Rodney_Gold;314859 Wrote: > I was under the impression that High sample rate recording is not to > preserve inaudible sonics , its so that anti aliasing filters are much > higher up in the freq scale and thus dont impact or lessen the impact > at audible frequencies? if you are talking about the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Receiver with 96kHz output

2008-06-25 Thread Rodney_Gold
I was under the impression that High sample rate recording is not to preserve inaudible sonics , its so that anti aliasing filters are much higher up in the freq scale and thus dont impact or lessen the impact at audible frequencies? -- Rodney_Gold Sb3/Z-sys RDP1/meridian DSP5500's TP/X-cans v

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Receiver with 96kHz output

2008-06-25 Thread Phil Leigh
pfarrell;314840 Wrote: > Phil Leigh wrote: > > There is little to be recorded at 20khz never mind 24... in the past > > very very few tape machines (or tapes) could get flat past > 22khz...and > > the mics were rolling off there as well. Modern mics and digital > > recorders can go much higher...

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Receiver with 96kHz output

2008-06-25 Thread Pat Farrell
Phil Leigh wrote: > There is little to be recorded at 20khz never mind 24... in the past > very very few tape machines (or tapes) could get flat past 22khz...and > the mics were rolling off there as well. Modern mics and digital > recorders can go much higher... I'm not sure what you mean by "mode

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Receiver with 96kHz output

2008-06-25 Thread Phil Leigh
cliveb;314821 Wrote: > My point wasn't whether stuff up above 20kHz is audible. Rather it is > that if you downsample without pre-filtering, then anything that was > present in the original at a frequency above the Nyquist rate for the > new sample rate will be aliased down into the audible range

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Receiver with 96kHz output

2008-06-25 Thread cliveb
Phil Leigh;314785 Wrote: > Modern mics and digital recorders can go much higher...but there's just > harmonics from cymbals, brass and stuff up there...and we won't hear it > anyway. > > 48/24 sounds great on the Linn masters. To me they sound no different > to the 88.2 version. My point wasn't

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Receiver with 96kHz output

2008-06-25 Thread Phil Leigh
cliveb;314781 Wrote: > Others have already pointed out the various limitations in sample rate > support on the SBR. > > But the subtext of the original post is rather more interesting. What's > being said here is that a system with dCS gear (ie. state of the art) > does NOT expose the fact that

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Receiver with 96kHz output

2008-06-25 Thread cliveb
tobyjug;314736 Wrote: > Does anyone know if Logitech will be releasing a receiver with up to > 96khz on the digital output. I have some Linn files that are 24/96 and > the SB3 is downsampling them to 24/48 which going through the dCS > Purcell (upsampling to 192) and Delius sound extreamly good.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Receiver with 96kHz output

2008-06-25 Thread adamslim
tobyjug;314736 Wrote: > I know the transporter outputs at 96 but it would be a waste of money > when I have the dCS kit any I haven't got any where near that kind of > money. Wow - the TP is too expensive compared to your dCS kit? You steal it? ;) The Receiver is very similar to the SB3; I thi

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Receiver with 96kHz output

2008-06-24 Thread radish
tobyjug;314736 Wrote: > Does anyone know if Logitech will be releasing a receiver with up to > 96khz on the digital output. Nothing's been announced, and Logitech have a policy of not talking about future products. -- radish

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Receiver with 96kHz output

2008-06-24 Thread tobyjug
Does anyone know if Logitech will be releasing a receiver with up to 96khz on the digital output. I have some Linn files that are 24/96 and the SB3 is downsampling them to 24/48 which going through the dCS Purcell (upsampling to 192) and Delius sound extreamly good. Very detailed, warm and very li